Corbyn victory soon leads to rail nationalisation hitting the headlines

The first policy announced by the new leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, was in the field of transport and appears to have been chosen because, as even its critics admit, rail renationalisation is a very popular idea with the voting public at the moment.

One of the first policy announcements by new Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was to state his intention to renationalise the railways if and when his party returns to power. “His plans to renationalise the railways will reignite speculation about other Tory privatisations that Mr Corbyn might try to reverse, although his allies have played down any plans to bring power firms back under public control,” The Sunday Mirror suggested on 20 September. “An enthusiastic cyclist who...

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