New Statesman bemoans little party interest in transport issues

In a rare media debate on the transport policies of the significant (English) political parties, one of the country’s political magazines was scathing about the comparative lack of interest shown. Rik Thomas reports

Rik Thomas

09 June 2017

The New Statesman was unconvinced by UKIP?plans to scrap the expansion of Heathrow and reopen Manston Airport in Kent (pictured) instead

Transport received far less media coverage than many other issues in the run up to the General Election, with the possible exception of Labour’s proposals to renationalise the railways (see Media Monitor 26 May).

An exception to this was a lengthy article in The New Statesman that went through the major transport policies of each of the major parties in some detail. “Education gets around five pages of the Tory manifesto,” NS writer John Elledge noted on 31 May. “The NHS...