I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. We had this litany from him, which was put just as eloquently, upstairs in Committee. I wish to ask him this: first, if the privatisation of the railways was such a disaster and disservice to the travelling public, why do we now have record levels of people using the railways; and secondly, why did the last Labour Government not renationalise it during their 13 years in power?
High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Simon Burns
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23 March 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Bill.
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