Labour’s lurch to the left

If Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister next month and renationalises the railways, will Virgin’s tilting trains be allowed to lean only to the left? Alan Scotcher, Croydon Your prize letter last week from a reader in North Wales stated that nationalisation of the railways had transformed them into the worst in Europe, and the implication was that privatisation had brought about a vast improvement.

But people living in North Wales are not likely to have had to endure travelling regularly on Southern trains over the past year, nor put up with the current Government being content to wash their hands of the fiasco. Malcolm Challis, Littlehampton, West Sussex