Grayling ‘won’t quit his station’ over HS2 deal
TRANSPORT Secretary Chris Grayling has rejected calls to “leave the station” over Carillion.
It comes after he awarded the firm multi-million pound contracts for the HS2 railway after its first profit warning and the departure of its chief, Richard Howson.
Speaking in the Commons yesterday, Shadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald called upon his counterpart to quit.
Referring to a recent newspaper article, he said: “It highlighted... his dysfunctional dealings with trade unions and the private sector, saying the PM needs to consider whether it’s time this Transport Secretary left the station.”
But Mr Grayling said: “The only station I’m going to be leaving is [London] Euston this morning.”
He added: “The contracting with Carillion was... with a consortium of companies equally responsible for delivering the contract.”
It came as Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn vowed to make the public sector the default choice for providing government services.