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Do former transport ministers dream of electric buses?

Mark Leftly, the Guardian
clock 24 April 2017 •
Norman Baker and Tom Druitt - Credit: The Big Lemon Bus Company
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Norman Baker and Tom Druitt - Credit: The Big Lemon Bus Company

Ex Lib Dem MP Norman Baker has swapped the 'constant battle' of working with Theresa May for running a Brighton eco-firm that's launching a green bus route

Vince Cable and Ed Davey, the former business and energy secretaries respectively, are among the Liberal Democrats that lost their seats in 2015 who are plotting their way back to parliament in this general...

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