Investment in local rail is also direly needed. Both parties trot out the popular evergreen policy of undoing the 1960s Beeching railway cuts and reopening closed railway branch lines. Yet, both fall short of actually committing to the required investment. Labour will consult further on the policy, while the Conservatives budget only £500m for the project – a drop in the ocean of railway project costs that will certainly make little to no difference.
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