Good morning. If you were thinking of using a train, crossing a border, or taking your kids to school in the UK today, you’d better check your plans: those are just three of the sectors affected by strikes involving up to half a million people, the single biggest day of industrial action in the UK for more than a decade.
Today’s strikes – mostly in England and Wales, with some schools and train services affected in Scotland – are very far from the end of the story: more industrial action, including in the NHS, is planned throughout February and March, and talks are said to be “going backwards”.
