Kuenssberg Grills 3 Ministers Transport Chief, Green Deputy & Tory Treasury Hawk in Crucial Pre-Budget Clash
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is among the senior political figures joining Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday 23 November, as the BBC’s flagship politics programme returns with analysis and interviews on the week’s biggest stories.
Here is everything you need to know about today’s edition.
Full list of guests on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Three political guests will appear live in the studio with Laura Kuenssberg:
• Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander
• Green Party leader Zack Polanski
• Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride
Kuenssberg will also speak with actor Joseph Fiennes and Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, about the new BBC drama Prisoner 951, which explores her detention in Iran.
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Why the transport secretary is appearing
Heidi Alexander joins the programme days after the government confirmed that rail fares in England will be frozen next year for the first time in thirty years.
Ministers say the policy will save millions of rail passengers hundreds of pounds on season tickets as well as peak and off peak returns between major cities.
The government said the freeze is part of its wider plan to rebuild a publicly owned Great British Railways. The reforms aim to modernise rail travel by expanding tap in tap out payment systems, improving digital ticketing and investing in superfast wifi.
The announcement applies to England and to services run by English train operating companies.
