A 'superbus' network for Cornwall. A funding competition to convert an entire town or city's routes to zero-emission electric traction. The promise of a national bus strategy. And a prime minister who deflects awkward questions about Brexit and his private life by declaring a fondness for buses. What is not to like? Perhaps it is that, by a cruel coincidence, these welcome signs of the first government in a generation — possibly several generations — to acknowledge the existence of the bus and a willingness to put its support behind it have come at the same time as one of the biggest corporate failures in the history of UK bus manufacturing. The collapse into administration of Wrights Group and its various subsidiaries including Wrightbus.
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