What the papers say: Trump’s top team, and ‘spurious’ Southern strikes

Southern’s strike continues for a second day today – spelling more misery for commuters. And the Sun knows who is to blame for the disruption: the ‘hard-left’ who are willing to ‘inflict misery on the public for political ends with impunity’. The Sun says that it’s time for a crackdown on strikes. It says the proposal apparently being put forward by some ministers – to block walkouts only backed by a small number of union members – doesn’t go far enough. Instead, the paper says, it’s time to force unions to ‘prove a dispute’s legitimacy in court or face ruin over a strike’s consequences’.

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The Daily Telegraph agrees with the view that these strikes are motivated by political reasons, saying that the safety reasons being put forward for the industrial action are ‘spurious’.