Monday, 17 September 2012
[Relevant documents: U ncorrected transcripts of oral evidence taken before the Transport Committee on 10 September 2012, on Rail 2020: West Coast Main Line, HC 537-i, and on 12 September...
I congratulate my fellow Lancastrian, the hon. Member for West Lancashire (Rosie Cooper) on getting the debate under way, but I have one stricture about her Dick Turpin analogy. I was always...
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