Chris Grayling refuses to take blame for rail timetable chaos

Chris Grayling said it was ‘tough for any politician to overrule the advice of the professionals’.Chris Grayling has declined to take personal responsibility for this summer’s rail chaos after a regulator’s report concluded that nobody had taken charge of the crisis, saying “a system problem” had been the primary cause.The transport secretary conceded that in retrospect he could have been more sceptical about assurances from rail operators that timetable chang