New day, new UK transport secretary Mark Harper
Official portrait of Rt Hon Mark Harper MP Image UK Government
With astonishing inevitability, the appointment of a new prime minister has meant the appointment of a new transport secretary. Step up to the platform edge, Mark Harper, who returns to a ministerial post after an absence of seven years, except for a spell as the chief whip, a post that is parliamentary-speak for strong-arm enforcer in the House of Commons, who makes sure members tow the party line. That experience should stand him in good stead for what promises to be a fight for every sleeper of track laid.
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Success story, “Automobile era”, was start short comings, since then plaguing, Industry and clients – of railways….
Now, post Brexit: Option of a life time is present.
Benefitting of “facit”: Devastating, short comings of Commission… and of Brexit… a Goal, singular, for infrastructure of UK, now has to be carved out!
Same as, in fact, originally of EU…, Goal, singular…, should be: Nearness, to Market – by railways…by – max benefitting of ports (basics of success stories, globally)!