New chancellor Rachel Reeves puts £1bn of transport projects put under review
The long-awaited Stonehenge Tunnel and Arundel Bypass have today both been scrapped by new chancellor Rachel Reeves, as some £1 billion of “unfunded” transport pledges due next year are also put on the chopping block. Delivering her maiden speech to the House of Commons, Labour’s Reeves said transport secretary Louise Haigh would undertake a “thorough review” of these transport commitments which cover projects from roads to rail.
” As such, Reeves promised that the new government’s approach would go against that of the previous Conservative government which “made a series of promises on transport” without the ability to go forward with them. This, she said, gave “false hope” to many with “promised roads that would never be built”. Those projects that did go ahead were “over budget and delayed and delayed”, she added.
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