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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2022, 07:40:38 »
Quote from: ChrisB on July 25, 2022, 08:08:01
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Starmer has just confirmed this "I am pragmatic not ideological".
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Quote from: ChrisB on July 25, 2022, 08:08:01
Nigel Harris from RAIL magazine has just tweeted that...

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Lab Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves just confirmed to
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Starmer has just confirmed this "I am pragmatic not ideological".

Also as he mentioned a lot of the network is effectively in public hands already, providing the two lunes running from PM don't scrap GBR▸ (Great British Railways) even more will end up in public hands
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