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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps
PASSENGERS are demanding the government “builds something better out of the ashes of privatised rail” through renationalisation rather than handing bosses a wasteful bailout extension.
Nearly 18,000 emails were sent to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps today to demand that the railways be brought back into public ownership.
It marked the launch of the Take Back Our Trains campaign, co-ordinated by groups including the Association of British Commuters (ABC), Bring Back British Rail and We Own It, in response to news that rail bailouts have cost at least £3.5 billion during the coronavirus crisis so far.
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