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HS2 seems to be moving inexorably forward with the letting this week of several initial contracts to the tune of £6.6bn for tunnels and preparatory work. While the project has not quite reached the point of no return, it is certainly…
There is no doubt that it was the young people which made a difference and nearly won it for Labour. I noticed while telling for an hour in the morning that many twentysomethings were voting and their poll numbers had that tell tale mark…
Commuters would be £1,000 better off over five years if Labour wins the election takes the railways back into public ownership, the party said today. Passengers could save an average of £1,014 on season tickets during the next parliament…
Next Thursday, a vote for Labour is a vote for hope and a vote for new economic deal for the many not the few. Just like in 1945. For more than three decades the so-called “orthodoxies" of market fundamentalism have led to the richest in…
Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to renationalise the railways, energy market and Royal Mail if he is elected prime minister. Labour will pledge billions of pounds in vestment in the NHS, schools and police as well as planning to take back into…
This is the letter which Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the TSSA, has sent to all member to mark the transport's union's 120th anniversary today. Dear team TSSA member, Today marks the 120th birthday of the founding of our union in…
Bus fares will be capped for a year if I'm mayor, Labour's Siôn Simon will announce today. Simon will unveil the key manifesto pledge, to cap all-day bus fares at £4.40 for a year, today. The fare would apply to all bus and tram services in…
Philip Hammond’s knowledge of transport was well summed up at my first meeting with him soon after he was appointed transport secretary in 2010. Annoyed at the number of level crossing around Egham in his Surrey constituency, he asked me…
This is the speech that Highlands and Islands MSP, and shadow cabinet secretary for rural economy and connectivity, Rhoda Grant gave to Scottish Labour conference. We know we are stronger together. To be able to work together we need to be…
John McDonnell has promised a Labour government would invest in Cumbria's struggling infrastructure as part of a planned £500bn spending pledge across Britain. The shadow chancellor highlighted the short-changing of the north when he…
TSSA negotiators will resume talks with London Underground (LU) at the Advice, Conciliation and Arbitration Service today to try to resolve the long running dispute about under-staffing and the serious decline in safety standards for both…
Jeremy Corbyn indicated his backing for the Southern Rail strike today as union leaders called for fresh to talks to solve a separate dispute on London's tube system. Corbyn spoke out on behalf of workers on the troubled London to Brighton…
