Last week, the Government announced it will end the £20 uplift to Universal Credit, the benefit Alston called a “social calamity”. What do you think of the UK bus service? Alston returned to the US with unfinished business, including a plan to study the “human cost of privatisation in the UK”. His new in-depth study – published this week – reveals an “expensive, unreliable and dysfunctional” bus system that is “failing passengers and undermining rights”. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester, made it a key re-election pledge to bring the city’s buses back under public control.

Source: Daily Mirror July 22, 2021 20:11 UTC