Faisal Islam
Rail shambles: More than a dodgy government calculator
Faisal Islam gets to grips with the spreadsheets that reveal the sensational story of the government handling of the award of the west coast mainline franchise.
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Conservative government nationalises East Coast Main Line
The government is bringing the East Coast Main Line back under state control, ending the franchise agreement with Virgin and Stagecoach, saying they’d got their bid wrong. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling denied Labour’s accusations that it amounted to a multi-billion pound bailout, insisting taxpayers “have not lost out”.
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Lilian Greenwood MP on East Coast Main Line: ‘Treasury will be experiencing black hole of £400m’
Chair of the Transport Select Committee, Labour MP Lilian Greenwood, discusses the East Coast Mail Line.
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Faisal Islam
The great west coast mainline gamble
If Sir Richard Branson is right about First’s “unsustainable” west coast mainline bid, then this Department of Transport decision is a gamble way in to the future for a new fat controller and for the government.
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Jon Snow
Arriving at the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool
Jon Snow blogs on his journey to the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool – and his first impressions of the mood of delegates about the party’s coalition deal with the Conservatives.
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Jon Snow
Speeding through Britain on the election trail – but at what cost?
Jon Snow blogs on his extensive rail journeys he is making to cover the 2010 general election.