Last night I dreamt that I was sat across the negotiating table from Mick Lynch, the RMT general secretary. “What are you talking about?” he sneered at me. I awoke in a cold sweat.
Plain-speaking and withering, Lynch has mastered the art of the patronising scoff, which he has now unleashed on countless TV interviewers and politicians. As the actor Hugh Laurie tweeted, “I don‘t know enough about the rail dispute. I only observe that RMT’s Mick Lynch cleaned up every single media picador who tried their luck today.”
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