Mick Lynch has offered to fight Grant Shapps in an effort to resolve the impasse over rail strikes.

When asked whether there is any other alternative to the rail strikes, the general secretary of the RMT union said: "I could do trial by combat... but I can't think of [another] way at the moment because we've been negotiating for two years.

"But it would be interesting if me and Grant Shapps went head-to-head, if that's not too flippant."

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