Infrastructure

Autumn budget 2024

Chancellor summons City bosses to No 11 for infrastructure taskforce relaunch

The chancellor will summon City bosses to Downing Street on Friday for the first post-election meeting of Labour’s British infrastructure “taskforce”, as the government hopes to steer more private...
Business

Euston is a problem without a good solution | Nils Pratley

Prepare for the next instalment of the great HS2 fiasco. Stories suggest the chancellor is preparing to shuffle...
Business

Corporate UK tax breaks to cost £20bn more than they generate, study finds

Corporate tax breaks designed to encourage companies to buy new machinery and equipment are set to cost the...
Brexit

Only 65% of UK firms have plan to cut emissions to net zero, study shows

Just 65% of UK businesses have a plan to reduce their emissions to net zero by the 2050...
Business

‘Serious disruption’ possible in hospitals with expiring PFI contracts, report says

Hospitals and schools that depend on private finance initiative contracts are in danger of “serious disruption” unless they...

Labour’s first job is not to spend, but to fix the UK’s financial plumbing | Phillip Inman

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Every time an upmarket home is bought in the UK, the new residents seem obliged to rip out the kitchen and install two bathrooms...

If you build hospitals, roads and railways, growth will follow | Torsten Bell

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We shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Nor judge a research paper by its title. “Discussion paper No.5: Public investment and potential output”,...

Electric vehicle public charging ‘deserts’ revealed across Great Britain

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North-east Derbyshire and Redditch, in the West Midlands, are among the worst public “charging deserts” for electric vehicles in Great Britain, according to an...

Renewed calls for UK industrial strategy to bring in investment and fix Brexit damage

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UK manufacturers have renewed calls on the government to urgently draft an industrial strategy that will bring in investment and fix the “terrible” damage...

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