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Rail renationalisation shunted off Labour’s agenda?
Starmer’s Labour seems to think a party that promises little is more admired, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Railway 12/2/18

WILL rail renationalisation survive Keir Starmer’s cull of commitments? Or will it be shunted into the sidings and forgotten about? 

Uncertain messaging from the top at Labour’s recent conference suggests the party is considering not taking back control of trains after all.

The 2019 manifesto promised “bringing our railways back into public ownership.” But listen to shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon’s conference speech: that isn’t what he calls for.

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