James Lewis
@JamesLewisLab
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Northern, Labour activist, Councillor for Kippax and Methley ward & Leader Leeds City Council, LUFC season ticket 🏳️🌈 this is my personal account ...
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If you live in Micklefield, Kippax, Ledston Luck, Ledsham, Allerton Bywater, Ledston, Methley & Mickletown we're your local councillors and here's how to get in touch with us.
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A resident has stuck a small picture of my face where a postage stamp should go on a post card and
@RoyalMail
have franked and delivered it to me.
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Given Leeds - Manchester electrification has been ‘announced’ in 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2021 but not expected until the early 2030s I know how frustrating banal railway announcements can be …
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Since the Conservatives and Lib Dem’s imposed austerity on Leeds Council over £2.4 billion has been taken from funding for local services.
We were asked to bid for levelling up cash for projects across Leeds and got £0.
£0 That’s how much the Conservatives value Leeds.
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Good argument for local > national journalism here. National media uncritically repeat briefing that northern rail will lose franchise. Northern journos who have stuck with the detail actually know what’s going on so spot the real story of further government inaction.
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As a gay man growing up in the early 1990s the names of obscure Tory MPs that made political points out of prejudice against us are still stuck with me. I'd hoped that in 30 years things would have got better for the LGBT+ community from politics but today is a shameful new low.
Rishi Sunak slammed over PMQs trans joke while murdered Brianna Ghey's mum in Parliament
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In Leeds, we’ve spent a decade preparing for HS2. We’ve been badly let down | James Lewis
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For the last time my bus home to Kippax from Lower Briggate will be £3.50 thanks to the labour team
@TracyBrabin
it will be £2 from Sunday! Making a difference during the Conservative Party’s cost of living crisis.
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Canary Wharf has had huge public transport investment. Docklands Light Railway & Jubilee Line Tube for local journeys and Crossrail for longer ones. For Leeds the Conservative Government haven’t moved in 18 months on tram study or high speed trains to Leeds from Manc & Ldn …
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It’s the day many families in Leeds lose £20 a week as the Conservative government cuts Universal Credit. 24% of children in Leeds live in poverty and around 40% of people who get UC are working but still in poverty. To do this is a heartless decision by the Conservatives.
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In May
@TracyBrabin
was elected 1st Mayor of West Yorkshire with a mandate to bring buses back under public control, introduce simpler fares, contactless ticketing & greener buses. Sad to see Conservatives at today’s Combined Authority meeting not voting to take this forward.
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Leeds 1st round of West Yorkshire Mayor result being declared.
@TracyBrabin
won nearly 100,000 votes. Waiting for whole result from the county now
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Pleased that this morning Leeds City Council Executive Board has adopted the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and examples in full.
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Leeds 1 - 0 Truss
FT
Liz Truss made her core message that our city, public services and schools weren’t good enough. Turns out it’s not us but her and the Conservatives that are not up to standard.
We need a general election now.
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Conservatives illustrate a story about Leeds with a picture of Manchester and the sea. I guess if your sat in London trying to figure the North out we’re close to both on a map …
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Thanks to everyone who voted for me on Thursday and by post and I’ve been re-elected with over 50% of the votes.
Look forward to working with everyone in our ward in the years ahead with the top team
@cllr_harland
and Mirelle Midgley.
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On my way to Leeds Arena to see my votes being counted and another 30 Leeds council wards. Expecting a result in mine just before
#LUFC
game kicks off.
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Labour win England win what a few days 🌹 🏴 … watched the football in
@ViaductShowBar
with
@TracyBrabin
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Sadly my wonderful Dad died last week in St James Hospital after a short illness. Will be missed by all of us 💔
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Thank you to everyone who voted for me, helped me campaign and put a poster up in the window!
Leeds local elections results:
Kippax & Methley ward: Labour hold
Elected: James Lewis
#LeedsElections
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Leeds result for West Yorkshire.
@TracyBrabin
wins 112624 votes about 40,000 ahead of the conservative. 🌹🌹
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Thanks to local Labour Party members who picked me as candidate for the next election in Kippax & Methley ward and to keep working with
@cllr_harland
&
@mikemiIIar
! My election is def May 2nd ‘24 and we’ll campaign with
@TracyBrabin
running for West Yorks mayor the same day 1/2
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just off home to Kippax on the Yorkshire crossrail … oh wait it’s an arriva buses single decker with a 57 plate taking an hour …
Rishi Sunak says Leeds will be 'treated like London' for transport plans
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We thought we’d seen off
#fracking
in our area but the Sunday Telegraph reports it’s back on the Conservative governments agenda. People don’t want the problems it causes in their community.
@cllr_harland
@MirelleKMLabour
& I will again fight any attempts to frack under our ward.
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At today's council meeting we said goodbye to
@beckycharlwood
@lisamulherin
@cllrjudithblake
from
@LeedsCC_News
executive board and I'd like to thank them for their service especially in the Covid-19 pandemic. We welcomed new members
@CllrSalmaArif
@helenhayden01
&
@cllr_harland
.
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Despite having £2 billion of government funding axed by the Conservatives I’m pleased that
@Leeds_Labour
kept every children’s centre open in Leeds.
Now the Conservatives want children’s centres reopening - what a disaster the last 10 years of Tory austerity has been.
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BREAKING:
@TracyBrabin
decides to franchise buses in West Yorkhshire and end decades of deregulation and decline.
@leeds_labour
councillors voted to ask for this in our council meeting in November and with one of our bus companies the country's worst we need this change!
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Come and run railways in the North - from your office in that London.
You couldn’t make it up ....
#northsouthdivide
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After 10 years of conservative austerity cuts has taken £2 billion out of Leeds Council’s services there’s a few empty council buildings we could sell them ....
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Proud at the announcement
@LeedsCC_News
will continue to provide Free School Meals for eligible children through the full 6 week summer break.
@Leeds_Labour
will not allow young people to take the brunt of covid and austerity.
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First 2
@Leeds_Labour
councillors elected tonight and congratulations to Cllrs Zara Hussain and Lisa Martin in Roundhay ward. 31 wards are counting the votes tomorrow!
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NEW : independent figures from
@BBCLeeds
show the shockingly huge amount of money that’s been taken away from Leeds City Council’s funding by the Conservative Government over recent years.
The decisions made in London will hit local services hard.
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I went to a Leeds council comprehensive about the same time and don’t remember ‘political correctness’ but I do remember buildings falling apart because the Conservative governments of the 80s/ 90s chose tax cuts for the rich and not public services… seems nothing has changed.
Truss bashing Labour-run Leeds and her old school again. She's really not letting that one go.
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Thoughts with everyone in Nottingham from Leeds after this week’s horrendous events.
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BREAKING: following
@leeds_labour
commitment to have glass recycling through everyone’s green bin Cllr Mohammed Rafique has just announced that this new free service will start on August 1st this year.
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Look forward to working to get
@TracyBrabin
elected as our Mayor in May to start the same route in West Yorkshire. Shows what Labour people can do when elected!
BREAKING: Greater Manchester takes control of its buses in historic move after Andy Burnham green light
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Lots of anger at Leeds Council Labour Group tonight after media reports that academy chains in the area are deliberately ‘off-rolling’ lower achieving children to inflate their results. Here’s what they are doing:
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I too regularly go litterpicking wearing a suit in order to try and find the £billions of transport funding Leeds & Yorkshire needs to catch up with Surrey and London … does feel like levelling up is getting watered down to can you get volunteers to carry out public services.
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Election called at 5:00 and on the
@MarkJSewards
#Labourdoorstep
by 6:30 ….
@leeds_labour
councillors will be out campaigning for the next 43 days to get a
@UKLabour
government elected.
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Leeds named Britain’s most 'vibrant' city
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Thanks to
@UKLabour
members in Kippax and Methley ward for choosing me to be our candidate for the election in May 2020.
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First meeting of Leeds Council since the elections in May and we now have more
@Leeds_Labour
councillors in the chamber. Pleased to welcome our 11 newly elected Labour councillors and we’ll all do our best for Leeds.
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happy ed balls day to all who celebrate
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Congratulations to
@mikemiIIar
just elected in Kippax and Methley ward today to work alongside
@cllr_harland
and I.
Thanks to everyone who voted Labour and helped our campaign 🌹
@MethleyLabour
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£100 million would make huge a difference to Leeds Council’s local front line services as our medium term financial plan shows a budget funding gap of £60m for financial year 2024/25.
A £100 million study that after less than 3 months has been rendered ‘no longer relevant’ 🙄
Confirmation here from Rail Minister
@HuwMerriman
that HS2 trains definitely won't come to Leeds (after the Government ordered a £100m study into whether it might be possible)
He says the study is 'no longer relevant'
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Wow what a result Bradford! 🎉🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to everyone involved in winning !!
@bradford2025
@SHinchcliffe
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It’s official! I’m a
@UKLabour
candidate for election on May 6th ...
#VoteLabour
nominated by the team
@MirelleKMLabour
and
@cllr_harland
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"We are extremely disappointed that Ukraine will be unable to host in 2023, but it would be an honour to host on behalf of them, West Yorkshire is home to a large number of Ukrainians. If successful with our bid, we will get the local Ukrainian community involved with our plan.”
🎶💃🕺 Leeds City Council issue statement on bid to host Eurovision 2023 👉
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Riding top deck back seat on the 163 bus to Leeds Council annual meeting ... we are meeting in person for the first time in
@LeedsTownHall
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The Daily Mail points out what the last decade of Conservative funding cuts lead by Cameron, May and Johnson mean for our front line services.
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Delighted to read in
@leedsnews
today that
@Keir_Starmer
went to Lancashire to tell people how great Leeds is …
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From April we will be paying the National Living Wage foundation Living Wage rate of £8.75 an hour as our minimum pay rate for all Leeds City Council staff.
@cllrjudithblake
@LeedsLabour2018
Leeds City Council's revised budget proposals at executive board
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Called into see the vaccine walk-in centre at
@LeedsMarkets
with
@CllrSalmaArif
and good to see people were queuing out the door! Pleased we could say thanks to the staff and volunteers working today.
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Certain places may be building walls. In Leeds we're painting the Lower Briggate bridge with a big rainbow
#lovewins
#compassionatecity
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This week starts with a bang as
@Channel4
opens their base in Leeds and good to hear from
@TracyBrabin
tonight
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Really sad news. For those of us who worked with Bernard we will remember him as force of nature and he has left a legacy for Leeds especially in culture and services for disabled people. People still talk about his memorable year as Lord Mayor many years on.
Hands-on former Leeds councillor and lord mayor Bernard Atha who had acting roles in Kes and Coronation Street has died
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Bradford should be integral to investment in the north’s railways and any claims of ‘levelling up’ and tackling climate change are pretty hollow if one of the biggest and youngest cities in the north continues to be left out of inter city rail services.
@SHinchcliffe
@TracyBrabin
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Like Liz Truss I went to Leeds Council schools in the Thatcher and Major years and the truth is it was Conservative Government underfunding of schools for 18 years that really let kids down.
@Jonathan_Pryor
@leeds_labour
@LGA_Labour
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Lots of support from the public for
@theRCN
@RCNYorksHumber
nurses picket line outside LGI. With
@leeds_labour
group showing our solidarity.
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Leeds tram was in the Conservatives last election manifesto. Leeds, Hull & Sheffield electrification spread across 2011 autumn statement, 2015 spring budget & 2015 ‘Northern Sparks’ northern rail electrification task force final report.
This all looks good on paper but think I'm right in saying these are all things that have been sought for years in addition to HS2 rather than instead of it.
And Government's Network North webpage is silent on key question of 'when' any of this is actually going to happen
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I do hope the Conservative Party leader hustings in Leeds is held at Roundhay High School
@FabianLeedsNE
@CllrZaraHussain
@LisaMar2022
@jordanbowden
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Moving vigil on lower briggate as Leeds sends love and solidarity to Colorado Springs. Proud to say a few words and thanks to everyone who organised and showed up
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Quick refresh for northerners getting giddy at Conservatives talking about our trains. In 2011 Osbourne promised trans-Pennine electrification & a new bit of tube in that London. In 2019 the tube is being dug and we’ve got nowt but another ‘announcement’ ...
#northsouthdivide
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Brilliant work from council staff & volunteers making sure everyone is getting fed in Leeds.
We've been open 2 wks and wow we've achieved alot! Today we packed 600+ lunches for the homeless plus 1000 bags for Easter weekend. We'll sleep well tonight. Thanks to the team for your hard work
@James_A_Rogers
@tomriordan
@cllrjudithblake
@FareShareYorks
@foodrevival
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double jabbed!! thanks to staff and volunteers who’ve worked so hard on the vaccination programme
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Important elections are happening on Thursday 4 May. To vote in person you will need to take photo ID with you to the polling station.
To make voting easier you can apply for a Postal Vote today. Anyone can apply for a postal vote, no special reasons or requirements are needed.
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Just finished my third day at election counts in Leeds arena and want to thank
@LeedsCC_News
electoral services staff for their brilliant job running all our elections so smoothly during such strange times!
@susannabenton
@JohnMulc
@James_A_Rogers
@tomriordan
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A gobsmacked local government contact objected to the constant improvisation: “I love jazz, but not in a policy development sense.”
Rishi Sunak’s “northern” “rail” “plan”: transport policy as performance art
Cathartic to write if nothing else
(Free to read initially)
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Local Conservative Party councillors and MPs in Leeds and Yorkshire must be held to account in elections if local public services are cut to fund tax cuts for a few very rich people.
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Fantastic
@Leeds_Labour
campaign launch for council and mayor election on May 2nd 2024
! Good to see so many brilliant candidates, councillors, MPs, volunteers &
@TracyBrabin
!
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brilliant to see
@leeds_labour
colleagues running today’s Rob Burrow Leeds marathon.
@AnnieBHLabour
@alexsobel
@nelnanandnora
@Jonathan_Pryor
@TracyBrabin
you can donate to our councillors fundraiser here:
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Pleased to confirm at this afternoon’s Leeds Council meeting that the council will pay our staff the newly released National Living Wage Foundation rate for next year of £9.30 ph as our minimum pay.
#LivingWageWeek
@LivingWageUK
@Leeds_Labour
@cllrjudithblake
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Good meeting of Leeds Council today where we awarded Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield Freedom of the City of Leeds.
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Councillors and candidates from Liz Truss’s least favourite labour council at
@yorkshirelabour
conference.
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As if the Conservatives are cutting ‘levelling up’ money for the north at the first opportunity … who could have seen that coming?
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perfect garden accessory …. my house in Kippax and all our council ward has been put into the Selby constituency for the July 4th election and everyone should vote for
@Mather_Keir
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Working from home? Rees-mogg will be having a meltdown …
BREAKING: Sunak is going to take a day off the trail tomorrow in a highly unusual move so early in the campaign. He will spend it at home in talks with his senior aides. But the Tories insist this is NOT a campaign relaunch.
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I’m going on a course to teach me how to take selfies ….
Thank you to colleagues from the
@Leeds_Labour
who joined Mohammed Iqbal and I at
#LeedsDock
today to speak to residents.
The big issue was of course parcel thefts, but we also picked up quite a bit of personal casework from residents.
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Really sorry to hear that Jayne Hill passed away, I’ve known and worked with Jayne almost as long as anyone in the Labour Party and I know she touch the lives of so many activists over her years of work. Thoughts with her family and everyone who knew her.
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I’ve been busy this last few days delivering my election leaflets ahead of postal votes arriving next week. Here’s the leaflet from when I first got elected in 2003 vs 2021
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🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak watching Southampton’s play-off semi final tonight
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Thanks to all volunteers, staff and
@LeedsandYorkPFT
@nhsleeds
@LeedsHospitals
@LCHNHSTrust
working as
#teamleeds
we’ve a strong record of doing vaccinations and we’ll crack on with the booster jabs. Details of walk in clinics in Leeds here:
@LeedsCC_News
‘Over 1 million vaccines to the people of Leeds.’ Penny McSorley, director of nursing for the vaccination programme, celebrates the efforts of
#TeamLeeds
.
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good day in selby with loads of great labour activists and good luck for the right result
@Mather_Keir
@SelbyAinstyLab
thanks to all the
@Leeds_Labour
people who have helped out today and during the campaign
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brilliant news!
@TracyBrabin
with 5 labour councils West Yorkshire are delivering change to the county and this result is a massive endorsement for our work on transport, jobs & housing. 🌹
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Breaking news from the Conservatives. The North is massive, a long way from the Home Counties and hard to get around ...
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Quick ‘northern powerhouse’ / ‘levelling up’ bulletin. In 2011 the Conservative Government announced a number of transport schemes inc. one in London and Trans Pennine electrification up here. Guess which one hasn’t happened and which one will start running this month?
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