A Conservative former minister claimed she crammed herself into a luggage rack to sit down on a packed train journey between her constituency and London.
Tatton MP Esther McVey told the Commons that her local Avanti train service had gone “shockingly downhill” in the last few years.
Ms McVey said: “The train service between Wilmslow and London on that Manchester to London line used to be hourly, direct and took an hour and 50 minutes.
“Since the pandemic, the rise in industrial action and the start of Avanti operating the line, the service has gone shockingly downhill, ending now in the substandard service that we have today.”
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She claimed a rail traveller had recently “caused a Twitter storm by posting up a picture of her child she had stuffed in a luggage rack”, adding: “I sympathised, for I had done exactly the same thing, only it wasn’t a child I stuffed in the luggage rack. It was me for…
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