Rail strikes are Tories fault and Labour shouldn't rise to their bait, Alistair Darling tells Andrew Marr
Some 40,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at Network Rail and 13 train operators walked out in a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
"These strikes are happening under the Tory watch, so it's their thing, they're the Government, they're the Government that's supposed to bring an end to that. "The thing that worries me is because people are now thinking inflation's here to stay, and the Government is not doing very much about it or showing that there is a way forward through that, the risk is you start embedding it, you go back to the 1970s," he said.
London Underground services have also been suspended on the vast majority of lines due to a walkout by workers. "RMT members are leading the way for all workers in this country who are sick and tired of having their pay and conditions slashed by a mixture of big business profits and Government policy.
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