"If we hadn't taken the action, the fare cap would have been lifted entirely"

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh defends raising the £2 bus fare cap to £3, and says the £2 cap ending on 31 December "was the funding settlement I inherited"#BBCLauraKhttps://t.co/zQx2szLVjopic.twitter.com/Fu90oFX0oz

Laura Kuenssberg put the transport secretary on the spot this morning over Labour’s decision to increase the bus fare cap to £3 by reading out the real-life impact of the move.

The government decided in last month’s Budget that, to help fill the “black hole” the Tories supposedly left in the public finances, they would increase the cap from £2.

The department for transport has now announced £1bn of funding will go on delivering London-style buses nationwide, with........

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