By Grant Shapps

Londoners have been riding driverless trains for almost forty years. The Docklands Light Railway has rumbled through the capital since 1987, a daily reminder that automation isn’t some distant dream, but a reality already woven into the city’s transport system.

Yet, despite that fact right on our doorstep, not a single Tube line has been converted to driverless operation.

London - the city that built the world’s first Underground and once led the way in transport innovation - has been left trailing behind. Paris has done it. Singapore has done it. Copenhagen has done it. London hasn’t.

And the reason is simple: Sadiq Khan prefers to bow to the unions than stand up for Londoners.

This week’s strikes are just the latest reminder of what his cowardice costs us.

In a matter of days, disruption on the Tube has drained an estimated £230 million........

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