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Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union , told a fringe meeting at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool that taking the railways back under public control remains party policy.Angela Rayner says Labour isn't 'watering down' workers' rights agenda“Labour should be shouting from the rooftops that the era of privatisation is over.”
Mick Whelan, general secretary of the train drivers’ union Aslef, told the meeting that the Government was overseeing the “managed decline” of the railways.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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