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Current operator National Express will formally hand over the East Coast franchise tomorrow night, with 2,800 staff also moving to a new publicly owned company.
No MP will hold any directorships or other second jobs, all MPs' expenses and travel claims will be posted monthly on the internet, properties used by MPs as second homes should be owned by Crown Estate (ie: publicly owned, used by MPs and returned to the nation after a member leaves office), and voters should be given the right of recall - to insist their MP stands for re-election - if a trigger threshold of petition numbers is reached based on suspected misconduct.
The athletes' village for the London Olympics in 2012 will be publicly owned after the government admitted defeat in its attempts to secure suitable private financing for the one-billion-pound development.
 
 
 
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