Comment: Labour plans old and new

And so that’s it. If the polls are to be believed, there will be change, perhaps total upheaval, of the rail system after 14 years of Conservative rule when the new government starts work on July 5.

Fittingly, the postscript of the recent troubled period on the railways was a strong admonishment from a House of Commons committee on the government’s delay to its long-promised restructuring of the industry.