The new Labor government wants to nationalize the companies that operate trains in the UK

FILE PHOTO: A passenger boards a train at Waterloo station in London (REUTERS/Toby Melville)

New A Labor government in the United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has introduced a bill to Gradual re-nationalisation of the country's railway operatorsMost companies are private, which has long been the promise.

“After years of poor and unacceptable decisions, this bill is a historic change that makes it easier for the government to return passenger rail services to public ownership,” the government announced in a statement.

After 14 years of Conservative government, Labor won a landslide victory in the general election in the United Kingdom on July 4.

Your bill proposes Move operators into the public domain while concluding private enterprise contractsor sooner, if mismanaged, amalgamate them into a body called “Great British Railways.”

As various contracts in force expire between now and 2027, it can avoid compensating incumbent operators, according to the government.

Privatization of railway operators was undertaken in the mid-1990s under a Conservative prime minister. John MajorBut the railway network is public, managed by the Network Railway Association.

Four out of 14 operators in the UK have returned to public control in recent years because of their poor results, but the idea so far has been to manage them temporarily before returning to the private sector.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attended a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (JUSTIN TALLIS/REUTERS).

On the other hand, the new British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, took advantage of its platform Summit of the European Political Community (CPE) presented itself to Europe to “reset” relations with the continent, particularly on immigration and security.

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From his first day, Labour's starrer wanted to set a new tone for the relationship with the European Union (EU). The content of the previous Conservative government may not have been that different, but that's where the important patterns and a good part of the change in diplomacy is happening.

With a busy agenda that began with a bilateral dinner with his Irish counterpart on Wednesday night, Simon HarrisThe Executive Chairman held face-to-face meetings with the leaders of the major Community countries from Spain. Pedro Sanchez to Germany Olaf ScholesVia Italian Giorgia Meloni.

Special treatment was given to French President Emmanuel Macron, who was invited to a private dinner at the same Blenheim Palace – the birthplace of Winston Churchill – that hosted this fourth meeting of the CPE.

Starmer expressed cautious pro-Europeanism at the start of the event, pledging, for example, that the UK would “never abandon the European Convention on Human Rights”, a move taken seriously by his Tory predecessors.

“The United Kingdom and the European Union working together are a powerful force for good,” Starmer told 46 heads of European countries and institutions gathered at Blenheim Palace, northwest London.

Due to the “storm” brewing on the continent, he recommended increasing cooperation to “renew the ties of trust” because, in his opinion, the security of Europeans is “at risk”.

A “pragmatic view” of foreign policy – “I'm not guided by ideology,” said this staunch pragmatist – he wanted to strengthen the UK's existing alliances and forge new ones with other countries.

Esmond Harmon

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