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Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn to announce rail nationalisation plan
Rowena Mason Political correspondent
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Jeremy Corbyn
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In first major policy call at party conference, leader will reveal that returning railways to public sector would be one of first acts of Labour government
Jeremy Corbyn outlined plans for a publicly owned railway at King’s Cross, London in August. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/LNP/REX Shutterstock
Jeremy Corbyn outlined plans for a publicly owned railway at King’s Cross, London in August. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/LNP/REX Shutterstock
Rowena Mason Political correspondent
Sun 20 Sep 2015 05.36 EDT
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Jeremy Corbyn will announce full renationalisation of the railways as his first major policy at the Labour conference in Brighton next week. He initially made the proposal in a policy document over the summer, suggesting that franchises could be brought back into public hands as they expire. Corbyn will put forward plans for this to be one of the first acts of any Labour government led by him in 2020, meaning a third of the railways would be in public hands by the end of his first parliament in 2025. Jezza the jester? He’s here to satirise politics as we know it
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In the run-up to the election, former leader Ed Miliband stopped short of endorsing full renationalisation, saying that publicly owned enterprises could bid to take back contracts when franchises expired. In a sign he wants clearer policy than his predecessor, Corbyn told the Independent on Sunday: “