Steve Rotheram: ‘Mayors are paving the way now for Labour’s bold bus plans’
Pick up any paper or turn on the news on any given day and you’re bound to be…
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‘We run major rail and bus firms, and we’re ready to work with Labour on transport’
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‘Bus franchising sounds dull – but history shows it can lead to public ownership’
Imagine waiting for a bus at Marble Arch on a hot summer evening in London in 1921. There…
‘Labour must ignore scaremongering about the so-called war on the motorist’
In the month or so between the Uxbridge by-election and Monday’s expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ)…
The West of England’s stance on buses threatens plans to ‘take back control’
Earlier this month, Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh released a video celebrating one of the defining examples of…
A pledge on minimum bus services would be revolutionary for coastal communities
The Tories’ recent £2 bus fare cap was billed as a helping hand with cost-of-living pressures. But it’s…
Avanti West Coast contract extension a “reward for abject failure”, Haigh says
Louise Haigh has described the contract extension awarded to Avanti West Coast as a “reward for abject failure”…
Haigh: “Labour in power will bring our railways back into public ownership”
Below is the full text of the speech delivered to the Labour Party conference by Shadow Transport Secretary…
Welsh Labour’s bus revolution shows what “on your side” means in practice
With the country in the throes of the worst energy crisis since the ‘Iron Lady’ was in power,…
Labour is stepping up the fight to save London’s transport lifeline in 2022
If there is something worse than the Tories applying one rule for them and another for everyone else,…
