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Mike Amesbury

Speaking in the House of Commons on 29 July 2024

Debate

Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill

Contribution

I thank the shadow Secretary of State for finally giving way. She referred to being ideologically wedded to a certain model of providing railway services. Will she explain why, despite its appalling record, Avanti West Coast was awarded a nine-year extension? Surely that was an ideological decision—the wrong decision.

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