Labour candidate for Ealing Council Rupa Huq:
You know you're in a marginal seat when Boris Johnson is spotted with your Parliamentary hopeful at the tube trailed by camera crews, shorthand scribbling reporters and long lenses. This lunchtime I encountered BoJo and Angie Bray the millionaire Conservative candidate who only bought a house in the borough on her candidate selection (in posh Chiswick though, not proper Ealing) at Ealing Broadway station. The two took tea at a caff opposite and Boris said Crossrail would do wonders for the area… except the Tories don't seem to have guaranteed funding for the project. When I asked, Angie said they were behind it.
Bray has also been talking about Crossrail to the Ealing Gazette:
Our support for Crossrail is a manifesto pledge and nothing has changed. All Justine [Greening] was doing was answering a question about a review. The Labour Party cancelled a comprehensive review due to happen last summer, these happen every three years and look at everything on the table. Whoever is in power after the election they will have to hold one. Crossrail will have to be on it, but then so will Trident and I don't think anybody believes the Conservatives would axe Trident.
True enough. But Greening did tell LBC that cancellation of Crossrail was "possible," and the chairman of the Ealing Passenger Transport Users' Group is reportedly "alarmed" by the remark. Now read on.
