Watch: Shapps’ rail announcement announcement is literally the Thick of It – bemused reactions
"Thank you so much. This really improves railway services in the Liverpool city region. Starting to feel fully levelled up now," one person said.
"Thank you so much. This really improves railway services in the Liverpool city region. Starting to feel fully levelled up now," one person said.
Department for Transport staff drunk and danced the night away last December, the day London entered Tier 3 restrictions.
"I don't have any other way of putting it."
Alastair Campbell tweeted: "Posh, rich, privately educated Southerners conning and now screwing the North."
The Sunday Times reported the Transport Secretary – who the newspaper says owns a £100,000 aeroplane – “set-up and diverted public money” to a new team within the Civil Aviation Authority which is designed to lobby against planning developments that infringe on airstrips.
The transport secretary also argued “cheaper labour” stops companies from automating British jobs, whilst insisting the government wants “people domestically” to do those jobs.
The transport secretary insisted last week that it was "wrong" to say Brexit was to blame for the energy crisis.
"If we hadn’t left the European Union we wouldn’t be able to introduce desperate, probably doomed, ideas designed to address problems caused by leaving the European Union.Grant Shapps there, reaching peak Grant Shapps."
"We have shortages of staff, shortages of supplies and shortages of skills. It’s largely happened because of the promises that your party made on Brexit which have not been delivered," Labour's David Lammy told Shapps.
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