Asked for the first time who will pay for the deal, Ms Phillipson said: “Well, I think it is important that we settle these disputes, and I’m glad that it sounds like we’re going to be able to completely resolve this.
“Because the disruption that passengers experience, and also the massive hit that we took to our economy was completely unacceptable and was a symptom of the wider failure that we saw right across the public sector, right across industries by the last Conservative government.”
Pressed on the same point again, she said: “We are working through this process, and we will make sure that this deal is fair, as we did where it comes to teachers as well, for example, where we had wide-scale, widespread industrial action that caused huge disruption.
“And again, that was another area where we’ve come in, we’ve taken action, and we’ve sorted it out.”