It’s not just disabled people like me who need railway ticket offices

The Tories have decided to close nearly all of England’s 1,007 station ticket offices. They’re on completely the wrong track, argues James Moore – and making everybody’s world smaller

More than 600,000 people responded to the government’s consultation about closing railway ticket offices (PA Wire)

In a recent profile interview, rail minister Huw Merriman broke one of the cardinal rules of political life – he said the quiet bit out loud.

Talking to the Politics Home website about his journey to the Commons – how he climbed the greasy pole to the top, rather than his route to work that morning – he let something slip: “I think I’m actually a very bad parliamentary performer.”

Lucky, then, the minister didn’t have to appear this week before the transport select committee that scrutinises his work.