Louise Haigh comments on the government u-turn on ticket office closures

Louise Haigh MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, commenting on the government u-turn on ticket office closures, said:

"These shambolic plans have fallen apart under scrutiny.

“The government failed to come clean on the impact of these proposals for accessibility and job security and now have been forced into a humiliating climb down, disowning the very proposals ministers championed from the start.

“Tory ministers have serious questions to answer on their colossal waste of taxpayers' money after spending months on these flawed proposals.

“This is yet another example of how this broken government’s time is up.

“A Labour government would end the chaos on our railways by delivering a publicly owned and unified rail network, bringing contracts into public ownership as they expire, with every decision tested against delivering for the passenger.”