In our concluding inquiry hearing on franchising, I asked the Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, about the future model of rail operations. Whilst the session was about the East Coast franchise, I highlighted Southern as a franchise with a much worse performance record which could benefit from the a closer public/private partnership. View my exchanges here: https://goo.gl/kdsZyu and here; https://goo.gl/1sAhXi