Tube bosses tried to bully workers into dropping their whole campaign against jobs cuts and ticket closures if they wanted London Underground (LU) to postpone the plans’ implementation, it was claimed yesterday.

A second wave of strikes by RMT union members will begin this evening on the network and are set to last 72 hours. 

But a negotiator for the RMT union accused LU bosses yesterday of “trashing” the chance of progress by issuing the demand over the strikes during last-ditch talks that took place all day on Friday.