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Dave Higgens

Blunkett outlines ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ plan to fix railways in Yorkshire

Lord David Blunkett (PA) - (PA Archive)

A £14 billion plan to fix Yorkshire’s “broken” rail system “presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” improve connectivity and unlock economic growth in the region, former home secretary Lord Blunkett has said.

The Labour peer has published an infrastructure plan with the metro mayors of West, South and North Yorkshire, which calls on the Government to deliver on repeated promises to back transport in the north of England.

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