·   In Opposition in 2008 and 2009 Stephen Hammond, then Shadow Transport Secretary, repeatedly complained about a lack of rail services on Boxing Day, saying that it showed that Labour did not have the “interest of the travelling public at heart”.   ·   But this year there are almost no Boxing Day rail services across the country – even though Stephen Hammond is now a transport minister with the power to do something about it.    Lilian Greenwood MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Minister, said:   “In opposition Stephen Hammond attacked the Boxing Day rail shutdown, but now that he’s a transport minister it seems he doesn’t care about it after all. He’s in a position to do something about it, but he’s decided not to bother.   “Perhaps he’s too busy finding new ways to reduce his personal tax bill to worry about the families he used to pretend he was standing up for.”