Claim cbaf343fChecked 21 Jul 2026
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“Keir Starmer commends his hon. Friend’s campaign to address the Croydon bottleneck.”
—Keir StarmerLabourThe Prime Minister·Engagements·03 Jun 2026Factual · historical current chronological
Reasoning & Evidence21 Jul 2026
The claim is directly confirmed by the official parliamentary record (Hansard) for 3 June 2026. During the "Engagements" session in the House of Commons, Natasha Irons MP (Croydon East, Labour) asked the Prime Minister to back her campaign to "unblock the Croydon bottleneck" and look again at the Croydon area remodelling scheme. Keir Starmer's first sentence in reply was: "I commend my hon. Friend's campaign to address the Croydon bottleneck." This is a factual, verbatim statement recorded in Hansard and corroborated by multiple parliamentary reporting services (TheyWorkForYou, Westminster Brief). There is no ambiguity: the claim accurately reports what was said.
Sources: Hansard (UK Parliament), https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-06-03/debates/051DBB77-8D86-47FD-91B3-95DD68A17CC0/Engagements; TheyWorkForYou, https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2026-06-03b.1157.3; Westminster Brief, https://westminsterbrief.co.uk/archive/debate/3-june-2026/engagements-7cc0
From speech
I commend my hon. Friend’s campaign to address the Croydon bottleneck. The last Government cancelled work to address this; we will carefully consider the case for upgrades, including step-free access at Norwood. I am proud that her constituents are travelling on rail services that are now back in public ownership, and benefiting from the first freeze in rail fares for 30 years—a Labour Government transforming our railways and building a fairer Britain.
Sources opened
| [1] | hansard.parliament.uk |
| [2] | westminsterbrief.co.uk |
| [3] | bbc.co.uk |
| [4] | mylondon.news |
| [5] | newcivilengineer.com |
| [6] | theyworkforyou.com |
| [7] | parallelparliament.co.uk |
| [8] | theyworkforyou.com |