The right hon. Gentleman is quite right that we want to speed things up and that the west coast main line is very busy, but to go back to the point that I made to my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough (Andy McDonald), what are we going to do about the bottlenecks? There were cancellations yesterday, and there only has to be one incident for everything to stop. That affects freight as much as anything else.
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Jim Cunningham
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 30 January 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills on High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill.
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