The Seagull Has Landed

ALT text of Guardian article: The decision will spell a more cautious timeline for renationalisation under new transport secretary Heidi Alexander than envisaged by her predecessor, Louise Haigh, who resigned last week. SWR will be the first to be brought under the control of the Department for Transport’s operator of last resort, DOHL, when its contract ends in May, as first reported by the Financial Times. All operators will eventually be nationalised under the provisions of the public ownership bill championed by Haigh, which became law last week. Haigh had, however, been mulling exercising break clauses in other contracts that could have seen Greater Anglia renationalised earlier.