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Evening Standard
Politics
Will Durrant

Infrastructure probe to look at why transport ‘brought to a standstill’

London Underground and Elizabeth line services were suspended because of power failures on Monday (Tom Philpot/PA) - (PA Wire)

A probe into critical national infrastructure will look at “broader questions” about why British transport networks have been “brought to a standstill”, according to the Transport Secretary.

Heidi Alexander has said she expects answers in June about why a west London substation fire caused a major power failure at the UK’s busiest airport, with more than 270,000 air passenger journeys disrupted on March 21.

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