They promise to drive down costs, lower journey times and offer improved services, but is there a darker side to open access?
"Earning over five times the average UK salary doesn't make you rich, you foolish peasants!"
“I just couldn’t stay in the Conservative party. I’d heard people crying and listened to them panicking."
Philp claimed there was a "strong economic rationale" for scrapping it even after Kwasi Kwarteng said he would keep the tax rate for 600,000 wealthy Britons.
They had hit out at Michael Gove for "stoking a Tory revolt" on the top rate of tax, before the party U-turned on the move over night.
"Thirty five per cent of the additional money we are borrowing is for unfunded tax cuts, cutting taxes for the wealthiest is a display of the wrong values."
The former prime minister wants to get the rich to donate their £150 Council Tax rebates to help those suffering.
The prime minister was corrected by Laura Kuenssberg following a contentious discussion over the rising cost of government borrowing.
An act of 'disgusting vandalism' carried out by an eco-protester in Derbyshire has sparked fury, after she defaced a Captain Tom tribute.
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