Boris Johnson has said that Vladimir Putin "was frightened" of Ukraine and described the invasion as a "turning point for the world" during a Tory conference. The Prime Minister claimed that the Russian president's brutal invasion of his neighbour was motivated by the fear a successful Ukraine would trigger a pro-democracy revolution in Moscow.
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Setting out his £3bn 'bus back better' strategy last spring, Boris Johnson's enthusiastic tribute to buses made it no surprise that he famously claimed to make models of them out of old wine crates to relax.
"They get teenagers to college," he wrote. "They drive pensioners to see their friends. They connect people to jobs they couldn’t otherwise take. They sustain town centres, they strengthen communities and they protect the environment. They are lifelines and they are liberators."
But a year on - and with passengers still not returning to buses after lockdown at anything near pre-pandemic levels - local bus networks across the North face a crisis.
As explored in a special edition of The Northern Agenda podcast this week, in Newcastle, Manchester and Sheffield, alarming reports outline how services could be slashed and fares raised in the coming weeks if the shortfall in bus companies' revenue is not made up with more emergency government funding.
Listen to special report on the region's bus crisis in The Northern Agenda podcast
In an online survey last week, we asked for views from across the North on local bus services. And the results don't paint an encouraging picture for those hoping people will leave their cars behind and take public transport for the good of the environment and the economy.
More than 2,000 readers of titles like the Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Echo and Yorkshire Live responded to our survey. Asked to give a score of between 1 and 10 for bus services in their area, with 10 being the best, 41% gave scores of just 1, 2 or 3 and only 12% rated their local service an 8, 9 or 10. In total nearly 70% gave their bus service a score of between 1 and 5 out of 10.
And are they using buses less now
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