Hybrid train's late arrival fails to electrify MPs – let alone the rail network | John Crace

Transport secretary Chris Grayling did his best to defend the new Great Western fleet, tardy, out-of-date and waterlogged as it was

No one can accuse Chris Grayling of not having his eyes firmly fixed on solutions. On Sunday the transport secretary had outlined his vision of a post-Brexit Britain. Those bits of the country that weren’t going to be turned into a lorry park when we left the customs union were going to be ploughed into one large vegetable patch.

The spirit of the Blitz would see us through. And it wouldn’t matter if there weren’t any foreign workers to pick the vegetables, because the potatoes and cabbages would be so thrilled to be British they would spontaneously leap out of the ground into waiting shopping trolleys.

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