If Chris Grayling can’t sort out the railways, what’s the point of him? | Gaby Hinsliff
The chaos-surveying transport secretary is a symbol of everything that’s hamstringing this government
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That was roughly the substance of the transport secretary’s statement to parliament on the mushrooming rail crisis – which, if nothing else, helped to explain the Whitehall mutterings that any minister following Grayling into a department can expect to spend a fair while sorting out the mess. The Ministry of Justice is still grappling with the legacy of his three years there, including legal aid cuts that have recently brought barristers out on strike.
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Source: Guardian Transport
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