This from Mwmbwls...
Maria the Eagle's speech is prefixed by the warning "Check against delivery".
In view of Labour's past performance and the discrepancy between aspirations to buy carriages, orders to buy carriages and deliveries of any carriages to relieve overcrowding - it seems like sound advice.
Note also no reference as to whether the enpowerment of local IPTA's could and should include the vertical integration of the rail infrastructure.
Perhaps Liverpool MP Maria has had her speech vetted by Councillor Mark Dowd, the man behind the recent volte face on Merseyside?