All news on the topic: Mark Harper

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Home Secretary tells police to stop protesters shouting 'Jihad' on UK streets
Cabinet Minister Suella Braverman is expected to raise an incident at the weekend with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley when the pair hold talks later
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Ticket offices 'could be spared' as watchdogs want bosses to agree concessions
The Daily Mirror is fighting to block the mass closure of 974 ticket officers across England, highlighting the impact on passengers, especially the elderly, and disabled
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Rishi Sunak offers Israel UK support as he insists terrorism 'will not prevail'
The Prime Minister spoke to his Israeli counterpart by phone and said the British Government would do whatever it could to help after at least 700 Israelis were killed
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'The Tory team are talking their way to relegation and won't win next election'
Columnist Brian Reade says the Conservative Party conference was the bluntest of admissions that for 13 years the Tories have done nothing but make this country worse
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Rishi Sunak shot HS2 video days before announcement - then said he'd not decided
Until yesterday the Prime Minister insisted no decision over HS2 had been reached - but it later emerged he had filmed an announcement video in Downing Street days earlier
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Station ticket office closures 'fuelling human rights crisis', warn pensioners
The National Pensioners' Convention takes place in London later this month and the railway industry's plan to axe hundreds of front counters will be top of the agenda
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Emergency Cabinet meeting expected as PM drops big hint he'll axe HS2 to North
The Prime Minister is set to order a Cabinet meeting where top Tories are expected to formally sign the death warrant for plans to run the high speed line to Manchester
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Rishi Sunak to announce he's scrapping HS2 to Manchester in betrayal of North
The decision to axe the high speed rail line from Birmingham to the North West of England comes as the Tories gather in Manchester for their annual party conference
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Tory transport boss defends plan to shut hundreds of rail station ticket offices
Cabinet Minister Mark Harper doubled down on moves to shut 974 railway station front counters in a bid to save money, despite the plan triggering a huge backlash
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'Tories will steam in and shut ticket offices regardless of what people want'
A public consultation is just a means of softening-up opinion, says Paul Routledge
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'Flights chaos is a sign that out of touch Government is wrong in every crisis'
Hiding behind small print and loopholes to avoid covering costs and awarding compensation will be unacceptable to those suffering after the air traffic control IT meltdown
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UK cancelled flights chaos could leave families thousands out of pocket
Many families are paying for new flights and hotels and could be denied compensation, and many have told how they have been left stranded abroad with no support
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Exactly what went wrong at airports as tourists face days of holiday disruption
The Mirror analyses the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) fault as Mark Harper, Secretary of State for Transport, warns Brits they'll be facing delays to and from UK airports for days
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Richard Madeley nearly swears in row with transport secretary over travel chaos
Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley was just moments away from swearing on live television following a heated row with Transport Secretary Mark Harper
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Air traffic control probe ordered as passengers hit by 'worst chaos in a decade'
Hundreds of flights were cancelled when a technical glitch with the UK's air traffic control system on Monday forced controllers to input flight plans manually - with disruption expected for days
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Pensioners attack 'completely mad' plans to shut railway station ticket offices
Older people will be forced off trains and confined to their homes if proposals to close station counters are given the green light, warn campaigners
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Rail station ticket office closures 'would discriminate against the elderly'
The National Pensioners' Convention fears the bid to shut hundreds of station counters will thwart OAPs' attempts to travel by train
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Even Tory Transport Secretary's aide says rail plans are wrong
The Tory MP Simon Jupp said in a letter the closures should not be 'used as an excuse to cut staffing hours and resources' and told a major train company to 're-think' proposals
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Top Tory told 'get back to work' and meet unions as rail strikes pile on misery
Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has written to Tory cabinet member Mark Harper after official records showed he hasn't met with the RMT or ASLEF at all in 2023
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We've got five extra weeks to protest crazy closure plan for rail ticket offices
Ticket office staff won't be redeployed on platforms like the rail firms claim, says Paul Routledge
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Just hours left to stop your local railway station ticket office being closed
Passengers have got until September 1 - which is Friday - to give their feedback on devastating proposals to shut ticket offices at 974 train stations across England
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Nearly every rail station ticket office in England 'set to shut under new plans'
The controversial Government plans, set to be unveiled tomorrow, will see Rail Delivery Group proceed with the proposals to close up to 1,000 offices at stations across England
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New travel rules could make it easier for Brits to get money back from airlines
Transport Secretary Mark Harper has announced plans for new protections for airline passengers including more comprehensive cover if wheelchairs are broken during a flight
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Leaked email shows Tory used civil servants for Labour attack in 'rule breach'
Labour warned that Transport Secretary Mark Harper had 'been caught red-handed misusing the civil service for political gain' after the Mirror got hold of a secret email
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Anger over shareholder bonanza despite failure of rail firm TransPennine Express
Parent company FirstGroup shelled out the millions in dividends last year while train passengers were facing delay after delay. The rail firm will fall under Government control at the end of the month