Labour’s new team at DfT packed with railway experience

Conrad Landin Contributing Writer rail@bauermedia.co.uk

LABOUR’S new team at the Department for Transport is a mixture of the familiar and the unknown. It includes veteran former transport ministers and local government leaders who have championed the cause of public transport. Despite rumours that the job might be given to someone else in government, Louise Haigh has been appointed Transport Secretary, the job she had shadowed in opposition. The MP for Sheffield Heeley since 2015, Haigh is on Labour’s ‘soft left’ and has links to affiliated trade unions since well before she entered the House of Commons. She is considered a pragmatist, accepting that rolling stock, freight and open access will continue to see private sector involvement in the railway. But her commitment to public ownership means that rail is the only major industry in which…

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