‘All sweetness and light’ over bus policy, despite previous differences between coalition partners

Last month transport minister Norman Baker told MPs that bus regulatory policy would be left untouched until after the Competition Commission publishes its report on Britain’s local bus market next summer.

Bus policy had divided the coalition parties before the General Election: Baker is an enthusiast for bus Quality Contracts whereas the Conservatives proposed repealing the Quality Contract provisions of the Local Transport Act 2008. But the coalition partners now seem united on the way...