Member

I do not say that every commuter line in London should be transferred to the Mayor of London. I do not have the evidence to make that case—it should be looked at line by line—but what we now have here from the Government is the complete and irrational estoppel. It brings us to the contradiction at the heart of the Government’s legislation and their thinking, which is that they are committed to what I have referred to as the single controlling brain—the words I should be using are “single controlling mind”, because those are the words used by the Labour Party, but it comes to the same thing—running the entire system. That is simply inconsistent with any serious form of devolution at all.