Corbyn confirms Labour rail nationalisation plans
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed his plans to renationalise the railways. He made the pledge at the annual conference of the RMT, and the union has welcomed his statement. The railways are only partly privately run at the moment, because Network Rail has been a government body in the public sector since September 2014. Labour’s target appears to be the franchised passenger operators, and it has been speculated that there are two ways of ending their participation, One is to allow the existing franchises to terminate naturally, and the second is to take advantage of ‘break points’, where these exist.
Southern warns of service cuts when ASLEF ban startsSouthern has warned that its train services will be reduced from 29 June until further notice, as ASLEF prepares to start an indefinite overtime ban. Talks between the unions and Govia Thameslink Railway over driver-controlled operation appear to be stalled once again, following a 14-day truce earlier this month between GTR and ASLEF which was intended to allow negotiations to restart. The RMT has also announced new strike dates on Southern, Merseyrail and Northern, while a report commissioned by the DfT has concluded that various reforms are overdue.
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