Southern Rail: Gibb Report Debate
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Lord Reid of Cardowan
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Southern Rail: Gibb Report
Lord Reid of Cardowan Excerpts(7 years, 4 months ago)
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Lord Reid of Cardowan (Lab)
To help the House, will the Minister remind us when and by whom the decision was taken to separate control of the track from control of the trains and to privatise them separately?
Lord Callanan
It was taken, as my noble friend reminds me, by the John Major Government. But I see no evidence that the Labour Party policy of renationalising the railways and handing even more power to their friends in ASLEF and the RMT will bring any improvement for passengers whatever. It will enable them to hold the whole country to ransom, rather than just the poor miserable passengers on Southern rail.