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Nottingham's tram extension would be scrapped if the Conservatives won the County Council after next month's elections on the grounds that the potential benefits are mostly to the city rather than county. This is however less true for the new lines than the original one, primarily because one of the new lines stops at the enormous Queens Medical Centre, the primary hospital for the county, where in all likelihood most people in the county will need to go at some point in their lives. A quick link from the city to the hospital will benefit a lot of people outside the city boundary.

Despite all their hot air about high speed rail, judge Conservatives on what they do about transport, not what they say.