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Richard Burgon
SHADOW justice secretary and Leeds East MP Richard Burgon opened Aslef’s annual assembly of delegates today with a vision of a “popular, modern and publicly owned” rail network when Labour are elected.
Mr Burgon said nationalising the railways was “one of the most popular policies in Labour’s manifesto” and vowed that Labour would “bring our railways back into public ownership.”
He pledged that “the workforce will be at the centre of the process, not as a top-down process, but with those who keep our public services running at the heart of our vision.
“We support the electrification of our railways and that’s a policy that needs to be pushed if we are to meet our climate change targets and it’s a policy the Tories will not deliver.
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