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Sometimes the whole messy, complex and frustrating world of Labour politics gets boiled down to something simple. Beyond nuance, image strategy, tactics, symbolism and personality, there can just be a straight ‘yes’ or ‘no’, which defines…
The Guardian reports this morning that the Labour Party will this week announce plans to allow state owned rail companies to compete with private sector companies for rail franchises, stating: “Ed Miliband will anger rail unions and some…
Last week market research agency, Survation, carried out telephone research on behalf of RMT, which looked into how the policy over railway ownership might affect parties electorally. For the research, Survation looked specifically at 4 key…
Despite the ink being barely dry on the Coalition’s Growth and Infrastructure Act, the latest Queen’s Speech has produced yet another Bill to reform our planning regime and promote infrastructure. “It’s like déjà vu all over again”, as…
It’s not often you see the Government’s own MPs stand up in agreement with Labour in the House of Commons. But such is the folly of the Government’s rush to deregulate parts of the taxi and private hire trade that this was exactly what…
The debate about Labour’s rail policy has never been higher on the agenda as ASLEF’s conference begins in Brighton today. Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Mary Creagh MP is due to address our annual gathering of train drivers this…
At the weekend, more than 40 Labour PPCs called for rail franchises to be taken back into public control as they expire. As I wrote at the weekend, Ed Miliband suggested in my recent interview with him that this was something he's open to…
There are two main sources of much needed investment into the railway – people who sit on trains and people who may or may not sit on trains but do pay tax. In other words – from us the great British public. This fact alone must demand that…
This morning over 30 Labour PPCs - all drawn from the party's 106 target seats, and taking in those from across the party spectrum - have written a letter to the Observer calling for the return of the railways to public control as…
Mary Creagh, the Shadow Transport Secretary, has reaffirmed Labour's commitment to High Speed Rail 2 ahead of a vote in the Commons on the project tomorrow. Writing in the Independent On Sunday, Creagh said: "Labour is backing this new line…
Boris Johnson’s latest gambit on the road to Number 10, if the London Evening Standard is to be believed, is to set up and manage a new Whitehall super-department: a Ministry for Infrastructure. The idea is to concentrate responsibility for…
Ed Miliband fanned the flames of Labour's internal debate on the railways today, when he told the Guardian's Editorial Conference that the Labour party is considering different models of railway ownership. Miliband said: "We have got to…
