Accelerate TfL takeover of Southern train services – MPs

Motion sponsored by Labour’s Chuka Umunna to strip Govia Thameslink of its franchise earns crossbench supportMPs have called on the government to accelerate a proposed takeover of Southern metropolitan services by Transport for London, as the train operating company Govia Thameslink Railway prepares to cut back its timetable by 350 trains a day. An early-day motion sponsored by Labour former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, and backed by MPs of other parties in affected constituenci