The transport select committee have heard that a resolution in rail strikes is further away than when negotiations started negotiations. Iain Stewart, the committee's Conservative chair asked union leaders where where they were on a scale of 1 to 10. Mick Whelan, the head of Aslef, responded: 'I think you can include zero. We’re further away than when we started.' Frank Ward, the TSSA general secretary, concurred. And Mick Lynch said: 'Until we get an agreement we’re not close to it' 
Rail union leaders say action can continue ‘for long haul’ and say they are further from a resolution than when strikes started – live