Listen: Strike leader Mick Lynch loses his temper on BBC’s Radio 4

Britain’s railways have ground to a halt for a second day running – but this time it’s strike action, rather than snow, that is causing the chaos. Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), has been out on the airwaves again justifying why workers are right to walk out. And the union firebrand was not happy with the BBC’s Mishal Husain for her line of questioning.

During their clash on the Today programme this morning, Husain asked Lynch how much workers had lost as a result of the walkouts. Lynch responded by attacking Husain:

‘What I do find annoying though Mishal is that you put these lines that are directly taken from the propaganda from the other side. You never show any admiration for the fight that working people are putting up. You never criticise the super rich for what they’re doing…You never seem to take an impartial view on society…You always seem to just punt out whatever you hear from the employers and the government.