London Underground trains are only running on a few suburban sections on the last day in the present series of RMT strikes. Today is the second day that signallers have walked out, while other staff were on strike on Monday and Wednesday. The RMT has warned that more strikes could lie ahead.

A new report from right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange which has been endorsed by Reform UK proposes the scrapping of Northern Powerhouse Rail, triggering a political storm. The report has been written by journalist Andrew Gilligan, a long-standing critic of HS2 who was special adviser to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.