MobileMajority of public support full railway nationalisation
11:53 | PoliticsHome Polls
A new PoliticsHome poll reveals that a majority of the British public support full renationalisation of the country’s rail network.
Research conducted since news broke of the nationalisation of the East Coast rail line (run by National Express) indicates that complete renationalisation is now the favoured option for railways among voters across the UK’s political spectrum.
Even Conservative supporters – typically thought of as sympathetic to privatisation – prefer full nationalisation of the railways to any other option.
Clear majorities of Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters, as well as non-aligned voters, also support full nationalisation.
Overall, fifty one per cent of the public support full nationalisation.
A further eighteen per cent want a higher level government involvement that stopped short of full nationalisation.
Just eleven per cent of voters think that the current set up should be maintained. A comparable proportion would like to see full privatisation.
PoliticsHome interviewed 1219 adults by email between 1-2 July 2009. Results are weighted by party ID to reflect the UK at large.