RMT boss says no new offers but deal achievable as rail and road passengers face strike disruption – live

Mick Lynch speaks after talks with minister on Thursday as one in five trains expected to run today and some National Highways workers strike

RMT leader Mick Lynch has said there are “no new proposals on the table” after talks convened by rail minister Huw Merriman on Thursday.

Speaking from the picket line at London Euston station, the union chief told Sky News:

“We had an exchange about what might be possible and some ways forward and ideas that all the parties shared, and the rail minister requested that all the parties get down to some more discussions in the next period.

“We’ll look to arrange those meetings with the employers and see if we can develop some solutions to the issues that hopefully all the parties can support.

If we get a set of documentation and a pay proposal that our members want to support, it will resolve the dispute and we can take all the action away.

I hope we can do that as quickly as possible.

“We started today with 46 organisations.

And why did we do that? We did that because we wanted to make sure that we manage this strike safely and effectively for every patient, the people that I’m speaking with here tonight in this room, and every other patient in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.