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And this is what Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, was saying about his rail industry plan in his morning interviews.
It’s three years actually to the week since we had that terrible May 2018 timetable meltdown when everyone looked around and no one could tell you who was responsible for it.
Great British Railways will be a single, simplified organisation running all of the ticketing, all of the network, bringing everything together – the timetable and the rest of it – under one roof, in order to make sure that people get the service they demand.
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, was doing the government media round this morning. Here is a summary of the main points he made about Covid. I will post his comments about his rail reorganisation separately.
A lot of this is to do with the practicalities, of course, and everybody has to be tested before they are even able to get on to a flight to the UK.
But I do want to see people separated out as much as is practically possible and … I think Heathrow will respond to this at the beginning of next month.
Of course. The reason for that is we have ended up getting way ahead in terms of our vaccination programme in this country and we are just having to wait for other countries to catch up with us.
That’s going to gradually happen, obviously, you can see it’s happening, so that list should expand.
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