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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

Rail is on track for managed decline, with fare rises only part of the problem

Simon Calder

Rishi Sunak has been called many things, but here’s a particularly crisp description from one of the railway industry’s most respected figures, Nigel Harris: “The most anti-rail prime minister we’ve ever had.”

That succinct characterisation was made in an episode of the Green Signals podcast, which Mr Harris co-presents.

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