A statement from the Mayor's transport director:
The RMT leadership is being duplicitous when they say that there was an agreement on the table. In fact, only a version that the RMT were proposing existed. LU made the very reasonable request that the RMT suspend strike action so that this could be worked through. However, the RMT leadership refused to continue or give the talks more time, and walked out.
Londoners will be infuriated by their behaviour and will join us in calling for the RMT to suspend this strike immediately and return to negotiations.
Interesting that Ranger has entered the fray. It's been Boris himself so far. Does that mean anything? At this stage, search me. Anyway, for clarity the recriminations have now moved on from the issue of the two sacked drivers - the angle Boris was still working on the Today programme this morning - to interpretations of attitudes to the meaning and honouring of a pre-exisitng redundancy agreement. Or thereabouts.
