I am old enough to remember British Rail. On quite a lot of measures, British Rail was improving before it was privatised. While the hon. Lady wants to make an ideological attack on a state-owned railway, British Rail was 40% more efficient than eight comparable rail systems in Europe used as benchmarks in 1989. Does the hon. Lady agree with the former Secretary of State, Grant Shapps, when he admitted that the franchise system was no longer sustainable? What is her idea?
Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Ruth Cadbury
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 29 July 2024.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill.
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