Former transport secretaries among casualties of Labour landslide

Former transport secretaries Mark Harper and Grant Shapps are among the Tory casualties in the General Election. Labour has won at least 412 seats, a gain of 211, with two seats yet to be declared. The Conservatives will have at least 121 MPs, which would be a loss of 250. When he was transport secretary, Grant Shapps added his name to Keith Williams’ Rail Review in 2021. Before that he had officially abolished passenger franchises in September 2020 in the wake of the Covid pandemic, replacing them with emergency contracts and then National Rail Contracts.