Title: Jeremy Corbyn to announce rail nationalisation plan | Jeremy Corbyn | The Guardian
Headings: Jeremy Corbyn to announce rail nationalisation plan
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn to announce rail nationalisation plan
Rowena Mason Political correspondent
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Content: We know there is overwhelming support from the British people for a people’s railway, better and more efficient services, proper integration and fairer fares. On this issue, it won’t work to have a nearly-but-not-quite position. Labour will commit to a clear plan for a fully integrated railway in public ownership.” Corbyn is not likely to have any difficulty getting the proposal through party conference, which has voted for rail renationalisation many times. Nor is it likely to prove particularly problematic with his shadow cabinet, which has made it clear to him that it will not stomach Labour campaigning to leave the EU, withdrawing from Nato or scrapping Trident. However, he is facing the possibility of his first rebellion over the issue of whether the UK joins airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. The Sunday Times reported (paywall) that up to half of the shadow cabinet were likely to be in favour of action when the prime minister puts his proposal to a Commons vote. This is not likely to happen until after party conferences and only then if the prime minister thinks he can win the vote. Modern capitalism needs an opponent. It needs Jeremy Corbyn
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Corbyn was again given a hard time in the Sunday press, with the Telegraph writing that the Stop the War Coalition, from which he was stepping down as chairman, had a poem on its website which the newspaper suggested was insulting to the Queen.