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Lord Snape (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 21 October 2024

Debate

Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

Contribution

I asked for that one, I have to say. It is mistakes being made at both ends of the Corridor recently. Arising from what the noble Lord has just said, can I ask him to clarify two points? First, on the delay in moving on to the more detailed Bill, bearing in mind that it was 2016 when the Government he favours brought forward the proposals for Great British Railways, what were the Government doing in the eight years since then? Secondly, I have a simple question about the ideology of privatisation: if nationalisation is so bad, why was almost the first act of Governments in two world wars to nationalise the railway industry? What makes it so essential in wartime and yet it can be handed out piecemeal in peacetime?

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