LNW-GW Joint
Veteran Member
A transport minister (Baroness Vere) told the Lords before the Recess that Avanti services were "terrible".The Government aren’t ‘privatising’ the blame at all.
She also said that a long-term National Rail Contract was not yet agreed with First/FS (the current ERMA expires in October).
That sounded like privatising the blame to me, and raising the spectre of OLR operation.
No hint there of DfT owning any of the current problems.