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Starmers promise of very similar policies to the Tories, but operated more competently playing out.

On the other hand he doesn't handle bad press well, let's see how this goes.

This occurred before Labour took office - Hendy was the chair of Network Rail at the time. However as Starmer appointed him Transport Minister it'll be interesting to see what he does. I think it'll just be swept aside and ignored because they're too focussed on Austerity 2.0

Honestly I’d expect they just fire Hendy; only in the job a month, so low cost of replacement, and it’s a bad look.

You'd hope so but Starmer's a bit weird - seems to want to look like he's in charge (suspending the seven who voted against the government on the 2 child cap) so it wouldn't surprise me if he tries to brush it off and do nothing. The papers are largely all still with him and I haven't seen this story getting picked up outside Politico so it's possible they'll just agree to spike it and move on :-/

Guardian are reporting on it now, so it's slowly trickling out.

Yeah I just saw now, that's good.

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