Ian Tucker compares the rail policies of the two main parties fighting the election on July 4th.
At the Bradshaw lecture in February, Conservative Rail Minister Huw Merriman and Labour’s shadow counterpart Stephen Morgan set out their opposing visions.
At the same time, we had the Rail Reform Draft Bill, which contained a degree of apparent consistency between the parties’ positions (both were basing the future on a form of Great British Railways), as well as core differences (including around whether there would be an expectation of private sector involvement).
