'Will our bus passes remain free?' – veteran campaigner calls on election winner to make travel pledge
A veteran bus campaigner is calling on the winner of the general election to pledge they will keep free bus passes for elderly and disabled passengers.
Walsall's Richard Worrall, of the National Pensioners’ Convention wants whichever party that takes office on Friday to support the scheme which allows senior citizens to travel the length and breadth of the country without paying extra.
He claims despite writing to the main contenders to ask if they will keep the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme he received no response regarding their plans for the popular travel scheme.
He also claims that Reform UK returned his letter marked with the word "refuse".
"I wrote recorded, signed for, next-day delivery to the following contenders national offices in London: Conservative, Green, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform last month and asked for their response by June 28.
"The only response I had was from Reform which returned my letter with said questions and a copy of the National Pensioners’ Convention election manifesto. This was recorded delivery and contained no response. The words 'refuse' were written on my original envelope
