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A DAMNING report has condemned Britain’s privatised bus services as “expensive, unreliable and dysfunctional.”
Today’s Alston report describes a system driven by profiteers’ greed, subsidised by billions of pounds in taxpayers’ cash, stranding people most in need of reliable bus services, and now in crisis.
It was co-authored by former United Nations special rapporteur Philip Alston and New York University human-rights academics Bassam Khawaja and Rebecca Riddell.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
