LABOUR MPs have accused the Government of double standards by backing bus franchising in Greater Manchester but not anywhere else.
During a Commons debate on bus policy last week, Manchester Blackley Labour MP Graham Stringer, a former leader of Manchester City Council, asked if the Government’s willingness to support plans for a franchising system in Greater Manchester represented a sea-change in Government thinking.
“I do not think that reflects a change,” said...
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