Haigh: We won’t shut ticket offices or cut jobs – or nationalise water
Labour has pledged to protect ticket offices and staff if elected to power, as part of its planned…
Renationalisation
‘Voters are sick of being ripped off. Public ownership must be Labour’s solution’
Last week, Angela Rayner compared renationalisation to Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, saying it would be ideological and cost…
Corbyn’s railway pains: will this go down as a bacon sandwich moment?
It began as a fairly routine video on the hand-held camera now beloved of insurgent political campaigns. It…
Renationalising the railways is not a total panacea for the problems created by the sell-off
Promising to renationalise the railways certainly accords with popular feeling since poll after poll has suggested that around…
Weekly Survey: MPs’ second jobs, railway renationalisation and Ed Miliband
This week started off with something of a 2010 throwback; the words ‘cash for access’ were splashed across…
Weekly survey: Changing policy direction, fracking and the general election
This week, a group of 15 Labour MPs published a joint statement urging the party to change course in…
15 Labour MPs release statement calling for change in party policy direction
A group of 15 Labour MPs have issued a public statement this morning, expressing concern about elements of…
Dugher says he’s not a “train-spotter” and he wants to champion motorists
Michael Dugher, the new Shadow Transport Secretary, has said that he wants to start championing motorists, by focussing…
Where Labour now stands on rail – and what the NPF must decide
Nick Robinson reported earlier this evening that “Labour will soon unveil a promise to change the law to…
Only by reuniting track and trains can Labour bring ticket prices down
When deciding Labour’s approach to running our railways, I hope the party leadership don’t talk down our railway’s…
