Despite today's walkout being cancelled, Network Rail said the very late notice means that services "cannot be reinstated and will remain extremely limited".
Chief negotiator Tim Shoveller said there will also be "limited ability to change the 'strike timetable' for Monday".
"Our advice remains to please check before you travel and on Saturday and Monday and only travel by rail if absolutely necessary," he said.
The strikes were called over jobs, pay and conditions and first started in June.
RMT officials said that instead of striking, the union will now "enter into a period of intensive negotiations with Network Rail", with the promise of a pay deal from train operators.
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RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: "The threat of strike action and our strongly supported industrial campaign has made the rail employers see sense.
"We have always wanted to secure a negotiated settlement and that is what we will continue to push for in this next phase of intensive talks.
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"Our priority is our members, and we are working towards securing a deal on job security, a decent pay rise and good working conditions."
He added that RMT plans remain "very much live" and a re-ballot for further strikes will conclude on 15 November.
Merseyrail said its services will be partially reinstated on Saturday as a result of the strike being called off.
Rugby fans travelling to Cardiff for the Wales v New Zealand game will be among those hit by today's disruption.
A spokesperson for the Rail Delivery Group said it is "positive" the union backed down on industrial action, but it is regretful services are unlikely to be reinstated at such short notice.
"We remain committed to intensive negotiations to agree the reforms needed to improve reliability, deliver a pay rise for our people and get the industry back on a sustainable financial footing," they said.
Regular strike action has crippled the rail network for several months, with many Britons left unable to fulfil work or personal commitments.
Several other industries, including NHS workers, are voting on strike action amid calls for inflation-busting pay increases amid the cost of living crisis.
For details about which train services are running and journey disruptions,see National Rail
The father of an eight-year-old girl who died in the Manchester Arena bombing has rejected the apologies of emergency services for their failures in responding to the attack.
Andrew Roussos told Sky News he believes "100%" that his "fighter" daughter Saffie-Rose would have survived had the emergency response not been inadequate.
Saffie was the youngest victim of the atrocity, in which 22 innocent people died in a suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017.
Image:Saffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing
The report also found there was a "remote possibility" that Saffie could have survived had she received "different treatment and care".
Responding to the report, Mr Roussos said: "We had to fight for this. For the last two years we've been fighting.
"We know Saffie as a person - she would do everything she possibly could to stay alive, and she did.
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"She was alive nearly an hour after detonation. She was talking, she was sipping water, she understood what was happening.
"Saffie did all she could to survive but didn't get that chance to survive.
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"A human spirit goes a long way in this. And Saffie hung in there the best she could for a chance to survive.
"And we believe 100% that if she got that chance, she would have survived."
'She would fight to the end'
Asked if he accepted the apologies of emergency services, he replied: "No, I don't accept apologies.
"You know, what I do expect is for them to be honest and put their hands up, particularly throughout the inquiry, and admit to the failings because without admitting to the failings, how can you change for the future?
"Now I've heard for the last two years, excuse after excuse, that that night went well - but it didn't go well."
Asked if he believed Saffie would have survived had the emergency response been better, he replied: "100%… because she's a fighter like her mum. She would fight to the end."
However Sir John Saunders, chairman of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, concluded that "there was only a remote possibility that she could have survived with different treatment and care".
"On the evidence that I have accepted, what happened to Saffie-Rose Roussos represents a terrible burden of injury," he said.
"It is highly likely that her death was inevitable even if the most comprehensive and advanced medical treatment had been initiated immediately after injury."
What happened to Saffie?
The inquiry heard that Saffie had received tickets to the Ariana Grande concert as a Christmas gift and was ecstatic to be going to see her "idol".
She was holding her mother's hand at the end of the concert when they entered an area known as the City Room where Salman Abedi detonated his bomb.
Saffie was about five metres from Abedi when the bomb was detonated.
She remained in the City Room for 26 minutes, during which she time she drifted in and out of consciousness but she was able to give her name to a member of the public who helped her.
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Arena bombing victims 'let down'
Shortly before 11pm, police officers and two members of the public placed Saffie onto an advertising hoarding that was used as a makeshift stretcher.
She was still conscious as she was carried out of the City Room, down the stairs, through a tunnel and onto Trinity Way where an ambulance arrived just after 11pm.
Five minutes later, Saffie was placed into the ambulance and her level of consciousness "fluctuated", the inquiry heard.
For the next 11 minutes, Saffie was given emergency care in the back of the ambulance and at one stage, she briefly spoke.
The ambulance left Trinity Way for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital at 11.17pm - 46 minutes after the bomb exploded - and the journey took six minutes.
Saffie was treated by a trauma team in the hospital's resuscitation room and went into cardiac arrest at about 11.26pm.
She was given CPR but was pronounced dead at 11.40pm.
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Saffie's death was 'complex issue'
The inquiry chairman said he accepted expert evidence that Saffie's death was caused by multiple injuries she suffered in the explosion.
But he added that whether those injuries made Saffie's death "inevitable" was a "complex issue".
There was "significant disagreement" between experts on the cause of Saffie's death, Sir John said.
Some experts "ultimately considered that there was no possibility" that Saffie would have survived "whatever treatment she had received", he said.
Others argued that survival was "not an impossibility with the best treatment", he added.
A post-mortem examination on Saffie identified 69 external injuries in addition to internal wounds, including injuries to her lungs and liver and internal bleeding.
A panel of "blast wave" experts, using the post-mortem report, photos and a computerised scan, identified that Saffie suffered a total of 103 injuries and stated: "Graphically, this can be described as equivalent to the energy of more than 15 handgun bullets."
Sir John said that while he accepted the blast wave panel of experts were right about the nature and extent of Saffie's injuries, he added: "I do not consider that the evidence enables me to say that she had absolutely no chance of survival if the most comprehensive and advanced medical treatment had been initiated immediately after injury.
"I cannot exclude the remote possibility that Saffie-Rose Roussos would have survived, notwithstanding the severity of her injuries, if she had received treatment from an experienced consultant in pre‑hospital emergency medicine immediately, followed by swift evacuation to hospital and expert treatment there.
"I make clear that what I am postulating is a remote possibility of survival.
"On the evidence that I have accepted, what happened to Saffie-Rose Roussos represents a terrible burden of injury. It is highly likely that her death was inevitable even if the most comprehensive and advanced medical treatment had been initiated immediately after injury."
Saffie's parents 'pushed to get answers'
Lawyers representing Saffie's family said the "damning report reveals what the families knew all along, that all the organisations meant to protect their loved ones failed on an enormous and unfathomable scale".
Nicola Brook, a solicitor from Broudie Jackson Canter, said: "Saffie's parents Andrew and Lisa have pushed to get answers about what happened to their beautiful daughter over five and a half incredibly traumatic years.
"After initially believing the blast had killed Saffie instantly, the pain of that loss was compounded by learning that she had lived for over an hour."
In a joint news conference after the report, Greater Manchester Police, British Transport Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue and North West Ambulance Service all apologised for their response to the bombing.
GMP chief constable Stephen Watson said the force's "failings were significant" on the night of the attack.
"We failed to plan effectively and the execution of that which was planned was simply not good enough," he said.
"Our actions were substantially inadequate and fell short of what the public have every right to expect, and for this, I apologise unreservedly."
The Home Office is facing legal action over conditions at the Manston migrant processing centre - as reports suggest asylum seekers were removed from the site and "abandoned" at London Victoria station.
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick told Sky News that a judicial review is being brought following reports of severe overcrowding at the centre in Kent.
Although Manston is meant to hold 1,600 people, estimates suggested 4,000 were being housed at the facility earlier this week.
Hundreds of people have been removed from the site in recent days, with Mr Jenrick expressing hope that Manston will return to being "legally compliant" soon.
In other developments, council chiefs in Kent have warned the county is at "breaking point" as a result of the migrant situation, with the potential for disorder at Manston and the risk of far-right violence.
They have written to the home secretary - urging her to stop using the county as an "easy fix" - and have warned they are under "disproportionate pressure" because of Kent's location.
There are no more school spaces for local children in Year 7 and Year 9 due to the unplanned arrival of young refugees, they said.
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Reports suggest a group of 11 asylum seekers were left at London Victoria without accommodation after being driven there from Kent on Tuesday.
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The Under One Sky homelessness charity told The Guardian that many of them were in flip-flops and without winter clothes.
Volunteer Danial Abbas said: "They were stressed, disturbed and completely disoriented. They were also very hungry."
A British Transport Police spokesperson told the newspaper: "Officers engaged and liaised with charity partners, rail staff and government colleagues to help them find accommodation for the evening."
The government is facing criticism over this incident - with Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael raising it in the House of Commons yesterday.
He said Home Secretary Suella Braverman had refused to prematurely release people into local communities without them having anywhere to stay - but claimed this is "exactly what happened" on Tuesday.
"She has something to answer. It would be very useful for the House to know whether or not she intends to come here and explain herself or whether yet again she has to be brought," Mr Carmichael warned.
Robert Jenrick confirmed the government is now going to have to justify, in court, why what it was doing was legal.
He told The Take with Sophy Ridge: "I expect Manston will be returned to a well-functioning and legally compliant site very rapidly."
I thought that was extraordinary - that sounds awfully like a minister sitting here admitting that what's going on in Manston in Kent isn't legal - as the government is about to face a fight on exactly that point in court.
Whether that will play into the legal arguments, we will see.
Mr Jenrick also talked about good forecasts. Turn that around, he means bad weather forecasts because over the weekend the lovely weather allowed lots of people to come over in small boats.
That led to this extraordinary pressure, layered on the chronic systemic issues - people sleeping on floors, on chairs.
He denied the scabies reported at Manston was a consequence of what was going on in there, but clearly there is a big problem with lots to fix.
This is all plugging into a difficult political area for the government. But right now, remember Suella Braverman was given legal advice that sources say she ignored about the conditions in Manston - which she denies.
For a minister to basically be admitting what was going on inside Manston was illegal feels like quite a problem.
What judicial review means
Speaking to The Take with Sophy Ridge last night, Mr Jenrick said: "I believe we have received the initial contact for a judicial review.
"That's not unusual, this is a highly litigious area of policy but of course, as the minister responsible, I want to make sure everything we do is conducted appropriately and within the law."
Mr Jenrick said he could not reveal who had brought the judicial review as it was legally sensitive - but Sky News understands the Home Office has received the pre-action protocol letter and the department will be responding "in due course".
Image:There have been overcrowding issues at Manston
Judicial reviews determine the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body, in this case the Home Office. It takes about three to five months to get a decision, but an injunction can halt action immediately.
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Work to make Manston 'humane and compassionate'
Mr Jenrick who was only appointed as immigration minister last week by Rishi Sunak, said he has been working with Ms Braverman to reduce the number of people at Manston - and the length of time they stay there.
While migrants are not meant to remain at the processing centre for more than 24 hours, some have been detained for much longer.
He added: "So the week I've been in post I've tried to work night and day to ensure the Manston site is not just legally compliant but is a humane and compassionate place where we welcome those migrants, treat them appropriately and then they leave quickly to alternative accommodation.
Image:There are around 30 temporary marquees housing migrants in Manston, Kent
"The numbers at Manston have fallen very substantially since the weekend when we became aware of the specific issues and got involved so directly.
"I think we're on a path now where within a matter of days, assuming we don't see very large numbers of migrants coming across the Channel - I don't think that's going to happen as we have good forecasts of the weather and other intelligence from northern France."
Mr Jenrick denied he had taken over from Ms Braverman in handling this matter after she was accused of failing to listen to legal advice that said migrants from Manston needed to be sent to hotels after being processed within a day of arriving.
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'This is the Conservatives' making'
Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "The Conservative government has no excuse. They have been warned about these problems for months and failed to act.
"These problems are entirely of their making - their decision-making has collapsed, so the backlog has grown and they clearly haven't planned or properly followed legal advice.
"We need urgent answers on what the home secretary knew and when. The prime minister promised integrity and professionalism but all they have shown is the opposite. This is complete chaos and they need to urgently get a grip."
A Home Office spokeswoman told Sky News: "The number of people arriving in the UK via small boats has reached record levels and continues to put our asylum system under incredible pressure.
"Manston remains resourced and equipped to process migrants securely and we will provide alternative accommodation as soon as possible.
"We urge anyone who is thinking about leaving a safe country and risk their lives at the hands of criminal people smugglers to seriously reconsider. Despite what they have been told, they will not be allowed to start a new life here."
The Home Office is facing legal action over conditions at the Manston migrant processing centre - as reports suggest asylum seekers were removed from the site and "abandoned" at London Victoria station.
Immigration minister Robert Jenrick told Sky News that a judicial review is being brought following reports of severe overcrowding at the centre in Kent.
Although Manston is meant to hold 1,600 people, estimates suggested 4,000 were being housed at the facility earlier this week.
Hundreds of people have been removed from the site in recent days, with Mr Jenrick expressing hope that Manston will return to being "legally compliant" soon.
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'Stressed, disturbed and completely disoriented'
Reports suggest a group of 11 asylum seekers were left at London Victoria without accommodation after being driven there from Kent on Tuesday.
The Under One Sky homelessness charity told The Guardian that many of them were in flip-flops and without winter clothes.
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Volunteer Danial Abbas said: "They were stressed, disturbed and completely disoriented. They were also very hungry."
A British Transport Police spokesperson told the newspaper: "Offices engaged and liaised with charity partners, rail staff and government colleagues to help them find accommodation for the evening."
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The government is facing criticism over this incident - with Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael raising it in the House of Commons yesterday.
He said Home Secretary Suella Braverman had refused to prematurely release people into local communities without them having anywhere to stay - but claimed this is "exactly what happened" on Tuesday.
"She has something to answer. It would be very useful for the House to know whether or not she intends to come here and explain herself or whether yet again she has to be brought," Mr Carmichael warned.
Robert Jenrick confirmed the government is now going to have to justify, in court, why what it was doing was legal.
He told The Take with Sophy Ridge: "I expect Manston will be returned to a well-functioning and legally compliant site very rapidly."
I thought that was extraordinary - that sounds awfully like a minister sitting here admitting that what's going on in Manston in Kent isn't legal - as the government is about to face a fight on exactly that point in court.
Whether that will play into the legal arguments, we will see.
Mr Jenrick also talked about good forecasts. Turn that around, he means bad weather forecasts because over the weekend the lovely weather allowed lots of people to come over in small boats.
That led to this extraordinary pressure, layered on the chronic systemic issues - people sleeping on floors, on chairs.
He denied the scabies reported at Manston was a consequence of what was going on in there, but clearly there is a big problem with lots to fix.
This is all plugging into a difficult political area for the government. But right now, remember Suella Braverman was given legal advice that sources say she ignored about the conditions in Manston - which she denies.
For a minister to basically be admitting what was going on inside Manston was illegal feels like quite a problem.
What judicial review means
Speaking to The Take with Sophy Ridge last night, Mr Jenrick said: "I believe we have received the initial contact for a judicial review.
"That's not unusual, this is a highly litigious area of policy but of course, as the minister responsible, I want to make sure everything we do is conducted appropriately and within the law."
Mr Jenrick said he could not reveal who had brought the judicial review as it was legally sensitive - but Sky News understands the Home Office has received the pre-action protocol letter and the department will be responding "in due course".
Image:There have been overcrowding issues at Manston
Judicial reviews determine the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body, in this case the Home Office. It takes about three to five months to get a decision, but an injunction can halt action immediately.
In other developments, council chiefs in Kent have written to the home secretary - urging her to stop using the county as an "easy fix".
They have warned they are under "disproportionate pressure" because of Kent's location - and there are no more school spaces for local children in Year 7 and Year 9 due to the unplanned arrival of young refugees.
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Man discovers nephew is at Manston from paper
Work to make Manston 'humane and compassionate'
Mr Jenrick who was only appointed as immigration minister last week by Rishi Sunak, said he has been working with Ms Braverman to reduce the number of people at Manston - and the length of time they stay there.
While migrants are not meant to remain at the processing centre for more than 24 hours, some have been detained for much longer.
He added: "So the week I've been in post I've tried to work night and day to ensure the Manston site is not just legally compliant but is a humane and compassionate place where we welcome those migrants, treat them appropriately and then they leave quickly to alternative accommodation.
Image:There are around 30 temporary marquees housing migrants in Manston, Kent
"The numbers at Manston have fallen very substantially since the weekend when we became aware of the specific issues and got involved so directly.
"I think we're on a path now where within a matter of days, assuming we don't see very large numbers of migrants coming across the Channel - I don't think that's going to happen as we have good forecasts of the weather and other intelligence from northern France."
Mr Jenrick denied he had taken over from Ms Braverman in handling this matter after she was accused of failing to listen to legal advice that said migrants from Manston needed to be sent to hotels after being processed within a day of arriving.
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Migrants 'threatening self-harm'
'This is the Conservatives' making'
Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "The Conservative government has no excuse. They have been warned about these problems for months and failed to act.
"These problems are entirely of their making - their decision-making has collapsed, so the backlog has grown and they clearly haven't planned or properly followed legal advice.
"We need urgent answers on what the home secretary knew and when. The prime minister promised integrity and professionalism but all they have shown is the opposite. This is complete chaos and they need to urgently get a grip."
A Home Office spokeswoman told Sky News: "The number of people arriving in the UK via small boats has reached record levels and continues to put our asylum system under incredible pressure.
"Manston remains resourced and equipped to process migrants securely and we will provide alternative accommodation as soon as possible.
"We urge anyone who is thinking about leaving a safe country and risk their lives at the hands of criminal people smugglers to seriously reconsider. Despite what they have been told, they will not be allowed to start a new life here."
Albania’s prime minister has condemned Suella Braverman’s anti-migrant rhetoric and said that Britain must treat his country with “respect” if it wants to strike a returns deal.
Edi Rama said it was “insane” to blame Albanian migrants as the cause of Britain’s crime and border problems.
He attacked Braverman over the language she used this week when she described the Channel migrant crisis as an “invasion”, and accused her using “easy rhetoric” to hide policy failings.
Edi Rama accused Britain of discriminating against his country in an attempt to hide policy failures
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Rama tweeted: “Repeating the same things and expecting different results is insane (ask Einstein!).”
He quoted figures suggesting that 70 per cent of the 140,000 Albanians in the UK were previously living in wealthy European countries such as Italy and Greece, and had not travelled directly from Albania. He
Conditions at an overcrowded migrant centre in Kent were akin to living in a prison or a zoo, a recent resident has told the BBC.
Ahmed - not his real name - said people at the Manston processing centre were treated like "animals" with 130 people forced to share a single large tent.
More than 4,000 migrants have reportedly been held at the camp - meant to host 1,600 - in recent days.
But Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has insisted numbers are coming down.
Ahmed - who left the centre on Monday after 24 days there - described being forced to sleep on the floor, and being prevented from going to the toilet, taking a shower or going outside for exercise.
He told the BBC that he fled his home country in search of freedom and to avoid persecution, saying that he had been living in fear for his life.
But after arriving in the UK and at the centre, Ahmed said people were prevented from calling their families to let them know they had made the crossing to the UK safely.
"For the 24 days I'm in there, I can't call to my family to say to them I'm dead, I'm living - they don't know anything about me," he said.
"All people in there, they have a family. They should know what is happening to us."
Manston, a former military base in Kent, opened as a processing centre in February for the growing number of migrants reaching the UK in small boats. Migrants are meant to be held there for short periods of time while undergoing security and identity checks.
They are then supposed to be moved into the Home Office's asylum accommodation system, which often means a hotel due to a shortage of available accommodation.
But Manston became even more crowded at the weekend when 700 migrants were sent there from another centre in Dover, which was firebombed.
Several hundred asylum seekers were relocated from the Manston centre on Tuesday, according to one of the MPs in Kent, Conservative Sir Roger Gale.
More will leave throughout the week he said, tweeting: "This must never be allowed to happen again."
Mr Jenrick tweeted on Tuesday that the numbers of migrants held at the centre had "fallen substantially".
"Unless we receive an unexpectedly high number of migrants in small boats in the coming days, numbers will fall significantly this week," he said. "It's imperative that the site returns a sustainable operating model and we are doing everything we can to ensure that happens swiftly."
But the British Red Cross said "the serious problems at Manston are indicative of the wider issues facing the asylum system".
A huge number of migrants have arrived in the UK this year. So far this year, there have been almost 40,000 arrivals in Kent - with nearly 1,000 crossing the Channel on Saturday alone.
Separately, the BBC received photos of unaccompanied children being forced to sleep on the floor at another unnamed Home Office facility in Kent.
The pictures show a sparsely decorated room, with just a few books and a box of Scrabble as entertainment to help pass the time in the facility.
Writing in different languages is seen scrawled on the walls above a row of plastic chairs, fixed to the floor. The BBC understands the facility is used to process unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
The government has come under huge pressure to tackle the rise in small boat crossings and to speed up the processing of migrants already in the UK.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been accused by opposition parties of ignoring legal advice that said she had to source additional hotel accommodation to prevent overcrowding at the centre.
Ms Braverman rejected the accusations.
The home secretary was also accused of using inflammatory language, after saying southern England was facing an "invasion" of migrants during a heated House of Commons session.
The Refugee Council said her language was "appalling, wrong and dangerous". Her immigration minister Mr Jenrick later said politicians must be careful with their language around migration issues.
And the prime minister's official spokesman said Rishi Sunak told his cabinet at a meeting on Tuesday that the UK would "always be a compassionate, welcoming country".
Meanwhile, counter-terror police have taken over the investigation into an attack the firebombing of an immigration processing centre in Dover in Kent on Sunday.
Detectives have said Andrew Leak, 66, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, likely carried out the attack in "some form of hate-filled grievance" before killing himself.
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Matt Hancock has defended his decision to appear on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! - saying the TV show is a "powerful tool" to reach young people.
Writing in the Sun, the former health secretary said politicians must "go where the people are" and not "sit in ivory towers in Westminster".
"I haven't lost my marbles or had one too many pina coladas," he wrote.
Mr Hancock was suspended as a Conservative MP after party managers took a dim view of his decision.
Simon Hart, the Conservative chief whip, said the West Suffolk MP's decision to take part in a reality TV show while Parliament was sitting was "serious enough" to warrant the suspension. He remains as an independent MP on full pay.
Rishi Sunak's official spokesman also said the prime minister believes "MPs should be working hard for their constituents, whether that is in the House or in their constituency".
But Mr Hancock has rejected the criticisms, writing that it is the job of politicians to engage with people.
"Rather than looking down on reality TV, we should see it for what it is — a powerful tool to get our message heard by younger generations. In fact, I think it's patronising to hear some say reality TV is beneath a politician.
"It's as clear as day that politicians like me must go to where the people are — particularly those who are politically disengaged. We must wake up and embrace popular culture."
Mr Hancock isn't the first politician to enter the jungle - he follows in the footsteps of former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries and ex-Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale.
But critics have attacked the MP over his impending three-week absence from Parliament, at a time when energy costs are spiralling, the government is facing a budgetary "black hole" and the war in Ukraine rages on.
Mr Hancock said he had turned down two offers from producers in the summer "because of the instability government was facing at the time".
But he said with Mr Sunak now in post as prime minister, the political climate was "stable" enough to allow him to take up the opportunity - and he said he has agreed with the show's producers he can be reached at any point on any urgent constituency matters.
The former cabinet minister said he doesn't expect to serve in government again, but hopes to use his time in the jungle to raise awareness about dyslexia - which he has himself.
But the campaign group Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice called Mr Hancock's decision "sickening", and urged ITV to remove him from the programme.
The group tweeted: "Matt Hancock isn't a 'celebrity', he's the former health secretary who oversaw the UK having one of the highest death tolls in the world from Covid-19 whilst breaking his own lockdown rules."
And Conservative MP Tim Loughton said Mr Hancock had been an "absolute prat" and losing the Tory whip was "the least he deserves".
Others have expressed amusement at the thought of the former minister being subjected to the show's notorious bushtucker trials.
Andy Drummond, deputy chairman of the West Suffolk Conservative Association, said he was looking forward to seeing Mr Hancock "eating a kangaroo's penis".
