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27 May 2020

TfL ‘institutionally unsafe’

A former board member has branded Transport for London (TfL) ‘institutionally unsafe’.

Michael Liebreich, who served on the TfL board between 2012 and 2018, claimed the body’s structure ‘places safety a distant second priority’.

Michael Liebreich
Michael Liebreich
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Mr Liebreich, who has campaigned for the Conservative Party, made the claims to the head of the review into coronavirus deaths among bus workers.

A spokesman for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (b. 1970), called the claims ‘entirely untrue’.

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