RE: LBC ..this morning3 Oct 2024 12:48
The government is today vowing an end to the "Tory chokehold on infrastructure", and is teasing a "major" policy announcement.
Ministers are promising a "major investment announcement in an industry of the future, sparking the creation of thousands of jobs and igniting growth in industrial heartlands of the UK".
There are few details of what exactly this announcement will be. The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, will announce it tomorrow alongside the prime minister and chancellor.
But it wouldn't be government without a bit of politics, and Labour is attacking "years of blockage and stagnation by successive Conservative governments, too mired in internal politics to seize the opportunities of the future".
Meanwhile, the government is declaring that it will "get on with building the projects that the British public voted for and in doing so we will spur on our project of national renewal".