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LABOUR UNREST OVER IRAN 3FORT POLICY?

1st October 1965, Page 40
1st October 1965
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From our Political Correspondent SIGNS of unrest over transport policy among the left wing of the Labour Party became evident last week-end, a day or two before the party conference opened in Blackpool. In a leading article headed "Questions Which Brown Must Answer ", Tribune, the newspaper of the Socialist left, demanded:

"Some Government spokesman will have to explain another promise which seems to have got quietly lost since last October—the promise of an integrated co-ordinated transport system."

The article recalled that, at the General Election, the public was told that nowhere was planning more urgently needed than in transport. In addition, the Labour manifesto promised a national plan with road, rail and canals properly co-ordinated with air, coastal shipping and port services.

But. said Tribune, Mr. George Brown's National Plan gave barely a hint of the promised transport plan "except where we are told that the relative shares of traffic in 1970 will be influenced by, among other trends and developments, Government policy towards different forms of transport, which is currently under review ".

So the question for the Government, at Blackpool. was: "What has happened to the promise of a national plan for transport, which we were led to believe at one time was so completely essential for the health of the economy?"

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