A difficult week for the PM as he crashes the car over sleaze and derails the trains
Boris Johnson hunkered down for some more bad press yesterday. There was no shortage of outrage as ministers confirmed…
Rail
Starmer: Johnson failed “first test of levelling up” and “betrayed” North
Keir Starmer has argued that the government failed “the first test of levelling up” with its integrated rail…
Ministers “sold us out”, McMahon says as he condemns integrated rail plan
Northern MP and Labour frontbencher Jim McMahon has accused the government of having “completely sold us out” as…
“Worst fears” realised as North braces for scaled back integrated rail plan
Ministers will today unveil the long-awaited integrated rail plan. They are expected to drop the eastern leg of HS2 to…
Labour slams Tories for “making rail travel unaffordable”
Labour has warned that the Conservatives are “making rail travel unaffordable” as a 1.6% increase in rail fares…
The “Lexit” myths and why single market rules don’t prevent rail nationalisation
Lexiteers, happily aped by Nigel Farage, claim that EU rules prevent nationalisation. This is simply wrong, as any…
Carillion hoovered up public money… now the neo-liberal model is collapsing – MPs and unions on builder’s failure
Senior MPs and figures from across the trade union movement have responded to the collapse of Carillion by…
Corbyn in show of support as former Army major picked to fight South Swindon
Labour activists in a middle England target seat have picked a former soldier to take on Tory minister…
Jon Trickett: Crisis at Carillion reveals the risks in Tory outsourcing dogma
It’s no secret the Tories have been carving up our public services and outsourcing them to private firms…
John Mann: Complacent Hammond is a chancellor for the wealthy south
Yesterday in the Treasury select committee, Philip Hammond did not seem particularly keen to answer my accusation that…
