There’s nothing ‘great’ about this new British Railways revamp | Simon Jenkins

Ministers will not get the rail system back on track until they allow individual train companies to manage their assets

No enemy of Tory policy is as savage as a Johnson Tory. Enter Grant Shapps, transport secretary. His proposed reincarnation of British Railways (ridiculously with “Great” attached) ends one of the major failures of modern British government. He accuses the botched Conservative privatisation of British Rail in 1993 of leading to “fragmentation, confusion and overcomplication”. In...