IT’S “not too late” for Transport Secretary Louise Haigh to change course on public ownership and get “the best of both worlds”, says Rail Partners Chief Executive Andy Bagnall.
Haigh told delegates at Labour’s annual conference that she was “ripping up the very roots of Thatcherism” in bringing rail services back into public operation. She said privatisation had “left us with a system that served no one other than its shareholders”.
In her speech in Liverpool on September 23, she said: “Privatisation of our transport is not pragmatism. It hasn’t spurred innovation. It hasn’t made things better. It belongs to a past that failed.”
Labour’s Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill, which is currently progressing through the House of Lords, sets out “for passenger railway services to be provided by…
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