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The RMT union decided to add a couple of rail strikes just before and after Christmas to those planned. Nurses, ambulance workers, driving test examiners, baggage handlers at Heathrow and bus drivers joined in. Postmen hoped to fit in another six strikes before the end of the month; Currys stopped using Royal Mail parcel delivery. ‘This is a time to come together and to send a very clear message to Mr Putin that we’re not going to be divided in this way,’ said Nadhim Zahawi, chairman of the Conservative party. ‘Our message to the unions is to say this is not a time to strike.’ Conor Burns had the Tory whip restored after being cleared of misconduct. He had been sacked as trade minister by Liz Truss after it was reported that someone claimed to have seen him touching the thigh of a young man in a hotel bar at the party conference; ‘It felt and smelt like a stitch-up,’ he said.
Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, said that the party would in its first term of office abolish the House of Lords and replace it with an elected chamber.
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