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Did Grayling know more than he let on?

“I’m beginning to wonder if we had rather more involvement in “the great timetable fiasco” than out secretary of state’s statement to the House of Commons on June 4 implied,” writes PT’s Whitehall insider. He explains that he’s not saying the Department for Transport was aware there was going to be a catastrophic failure, but that the secretary of state’s statement gave no hint of the department’s awareness that there were issues.

“It seems to me that from what the witnesses told the select committee, this department was far more aware of the issues than the secretary of state’s statement implied.”

We've read it in: Passenger Transport July 6 2018, p33