Half of Glastonbury trains cancelled because of rail strikes

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• Government accused of ‘pouring petrol on the fire’ as UK braces for rail strikes Ministers ‘want the country to grind to a halt so they can feed off the division’, Keir Starmer claims (Picture: PA/REX)The government has been accused of ‘pouring petrol on the fire’ by boycotting negotiations before the ‘biggest rail strike in modern history’. Millions of people will have their plans disrupted this week – including schoolchildren travelling to exams, patients heading to hospital appointments and festival-goers going to Glastonbury. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Tories of ‘wanting the…