SCOTLAND'S buses are still being “driven by Margaret Thatcher” despite the SNP’s new transport plans, a leading campaign group has said on the 40th anniversary of the day the former Tory prime minister began the privatisation and deregulation of buses in the UK.
In the wake of Thatcher’s legislation, which came into effect on October 26, 1986 under the Transport Act of the previous year, many district councils' bus departments were sold or went bust.
