Transport’s rare mentions in EU debate come from the ‘in’ crowd

The implications for transport in the UK should we vote to leave the European Union was not one of the ‘hot topics’ in the increasingly heated debate but, of those commentators who did refer to the subject, there appears to have been a broad consensus that staying in is the preferred option

DESPITE THE near-saturation coverage of the upcoming referendum on EU membership prior to the actual vote on 23 June, debate on transport issues was notable primarily by its absence in the media. There were a few exceptions, however. In The Huffington Post on 15 June, for example, self-proclaimed left-wing blogger Will Porter suggested that we should all vote to stay in the EU due to the lamentable (in Porter’s opinion) track record of leading ‘Brexit’ politician Boris Johnson...

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