Rail minister Huw Merriman's laptop stolen from pub day after biggest strike in a decade

A n investigation has been launched after the rail minister's laptop containing confidential information about negotiations on the train strikes was stolen from a central London pub, the Evening Standard has learned. Huw Merriman's work computer was taken from under his chair at a bar in Covent Garden, the day after the biggest strikes in more than a decade. It was stolen on the evening of Thursday, February 2, the same week that train drivers launched their last round of mass walkouts, causing major disruption in London and across the country . RMT and Aslef workers at 14 train companies…