TORY plans to flog Britain’s shares in Eurostar came under fresh fire yesterday after the continental rail service announced bumper profits.

Eurostar carried 10.4 million passengers in 2014 — a 3 per cent increase on last year.

The figure took the total number of passengers to more than 150 million since the service started just over 20 years ago.
And it saw the company, in which the British government has a 40 per cent stake, rake in £867 million in sales revenues last year.

Rail union RMT said it “made a mockery” of Con-Dem claims it was in the public interest to flog Britain’s shares.

“The Eurostar sell-off plan is a gross act of betrayal of the British people by a right wing government hell bent on selling off the family silver regardless of the real cost,” said general secretary Mick Cash.

“The French and Belgians think we are insane knocking off such a valuable and strategic infrastructure asset.”