Liz Truss’s first Conservative party conference as Prime Minister could be hit by a rail strike.
The Wednesday that Truss is due to address the Birmingham gathering as party leader is slated as one of two 24 hour stoppages by train operators in October.
Rail operators are understood to have been notified of two 24-hour walkouts on 1 and 5 October, the final day of the annual Tory conference.
Tory MPs and thousands of party members are due to gather in Birmingham from Sunday 2 October with Truss delivering the keynote speech at lunchtime the following Wednesday.
In that case the planned strikes will disrupt those travelling to the annual gathering as then going home afterwards.
Strikes that had been scheduled by Aslef and the RMT union for 15 and 17 September were called off by rail unions on news of the death of the monarch.
The Aslef union declined to comment and said it would not be making any statement until Tuesday out of respect for Queen Elizabeth II.
However, it was expected that further action would resume in a longstanding dispute over pay and working conditions on the railways.
The west coast line from Scotland to England operated by Avanti is due to be hit by the dispute.
Labour’s conference at the end of September is also going ahead. But the Lib Dems cancelled their meeting as it coincided with the Queen’s funeral on Monday.
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