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The arrival of a 24-hour service for the London Underground will begin this summer, after a series of delays under former Mayor Boris Johnson. The night tube is set to begin on certain lines on 19 August after agreements with trade unions…
Sadiq Khan’s brilliant victory on Friday made me proud. A Labour London Mayor winning by promising opportunity and hope, homes Londoners can afford, high-skilled jobs with decent pay, and an affordable and modern transport system. This week…
Sadiq Khan today laid out the the difference between him and Tory Zac Goldsmith, as Labour's London mayoral candidate launched a new ad campaign based around his pledge to freeze transport fares. Khan has said that he will freeze all…
For a long time now I have been campaigning to reduce the burden of Air Passenger Duty (APD), the tax on passenger flights from UK airport, on working families taking a holiday. I should be pleased that governments in Scotland and Wales…
This week marked the conclusion of the Committee Stage of the High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill, which legislates for the construction of the first phase of HS2 between London and Birmingham. As with Crossrail before it, the…
A half-hour drive from Oxford, on the edge of the Cotswolds lies the town of Witney, the heart of David Cameron’s parliamentary constituency. While Range Rovers and chocolate box cottages might spring to mind, life for many of its residents…
This Tory government has embarked with great fanfare on a drive to reduce the burden of regulation on business. The Enterprise Bill, on whose bill committee I am sitting, is the vehicle for their latest hotchpotch of supposedly…
As a trade union representing ordinary, decent, hard-working men and women doing a safety-critical job to ensure that passengers on Britain’s railways get the first class public transport they deserve, we have serious fears about what this…
Sadiq Khan will make his first major speech of the election campaign, when he sets out four priority areas to deal with as London Mayor in Isleworth this morning. The Labour candidate will attack the rising cost of living in the capital…
Promising to renationalise the railways certainly accords with popular feeling since poll after poll has suggested that around three quarters of the population supports the idea of a publicly owned railway. However, Jeremy Corbyn would be…
Sadiq Khan has today pledged a freeze on Transport for London fares until 2020 if he is elected Mayor in May. London commuters are paying thousands more a year compared to when Boris Johnson became Mayor in 2008, and fares rose once again…
Buses are the Cinderella of the transport debate. Debates over airports shape elections. Politicians champion high-profile infrastructure projects like high speed rail. Tube strikes capture far beyond London. But at the national level, bus…
