A meeting of the government's emergency response committee, COBRA, is being held in the Cabinet Office this afternoon. It comes as a wave of winter strikes threatens to disrupt much of the Christmas period, with walkouts planned from nurses, paramedics, rail workers and Border Force staff over pay disputes. The government is expected to discuss contingency plans for the strikes, with "serious disruption" predicted,
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