Rail is on track for managed decline, with fare rises only part of the problem
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.
At the Conservative conference in Manchester, Mr Sunak announced with relish that he was overturning a decade of consensus that Britain needs a new, comprehensive high-speed rail network – and scrapping.
