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The truth of the matter appears to be that a government minister didn't deny that a railway company would be allowed to introduce a third class of travel. Eurostar has three classes of travel, with what is now called Standard Select between Standard and First (or Business as they call it). This more or less aligns their service with that of the airlines who are their main competitors: Air France, for example, offers three classes on their European services.
I don't normally have a lot of sympathy with government ministers but in this case he seems to have a point that a railway union has deliberately misunderstood his statement and started this scaremongering. In my opinion no railway company has the slightest commercial interest in introducing a lower, cheaper class of service. They will be looking to provide a Standard plus service for which they can charge us even more money.
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