The trouble with handing roads to private firms
The Government is looking hard at injecting private capital into supporting the under–strain roads network. That certainly was one of the key messages that came out of Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech at the Institution of Civil Engineers today. This and the tone of the speech tell us a few things about current Government thinking and also raise speculation about other aspects of its approach. Firstly, the green agenda is shifting. Until recently the preferred politics had been to lean…