Britain’s Transport secretary Grant Shapps has put forward a plan to cap all bus rides outside of London to £2.
Shapps said he believed cutting transport costs for people on low incomes was a direct way of addressing the cost of living crisis.
“The most vulnerable in our society need concrete help in the coming year, measures that make an immediate and tangible difference to daily spending,” Shapps wrote in The Telegraph on Aug. 14.
Shapps was a candidate for leadership of the conservative party. He pulled out early, after failing to garner enough support, and backed Rishi Sunak. Polling has Liz Truss as the only other candidate left in the race as the front runner and likely to become Britain’s next Prime Minister….