Whose policy was it really? Osborne and McLoughlin’s? Or Alexander and Clegg’s? Both sides are trying to claim credit.
Patrick McLoughlin, Transport Secretary and former miner, on UKIP, HS2, the Euston Arch, Heathrow and the desirability of getting ahead with one’s Christmas shopping.
Admirers of Hands say he has the toughness needed to speak truth to power. His detractors say he is far too close to the Chancellor.
British politics is increasingly a battle to put money in people’s pockets. The earlier fight over deficit reduction has lost its urgency.
Patrick McLoughlin is the Secretary of State for Transport and MP for Derbyshire Dales. Yesterday saw the Second Reading of the HS2 Preparation Bill in parliament. It was a significant milestone for the project, with Parliament voting on it for the first time. It also enabled me to explain to the house why I believe […]
Patrick McLoughlin is the Secretary of State for Transport and MP for Derbyshire Dales. Imagine trying to drive to Sheffield or Leeds without the M1. Or getting to Canary Wharf in east London on the Tube without the Jubilee line. Or navigating around London without the M25. It would not only be a nightmare – […]
Patrick McLoughlin is the Secretary of State for Transport and MP for Derbyshire Dales This week has been marked by two important milestones for rail in Britain. One of them was the 50th anniversary of a Government report which was meant to herald the managed decline of the railways. It is an important, if misguided, […]
The Financial Times’s entire thesis would have been demolished by the facts – had the paper checked them.