ASLEF calls off strikes after ‘minimum service rethink’

ASLEF has cancelled five days of drivers’ strikes on LNER from 5 to 9 February, apparently because LNER has said it will not be applying the new law which enforces minimum service levels during industrial action. Rail minister Huw Merriman had said the government hoped the law would be used, but that it was ‘a matter for the employers’.