Conservative Party conference: UK takes ‘ridiculous’ amount of time to get spades in the ground on major infrastructure, says chancellor

By Daniel Gayne2023-10-03T16:39:00

Jeremy Hunt hit out at inefficiency’s in major project delivery and re-iterated no formal decision had been made on HS2

The chancellor slammed the time and cost of major infrastructure delivery this afternoon, but refused yet again to give a definitive answer on Britain’s biggest rail job.

Speaking at a packed fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Jeremy Hunt questioned why it cost 10 times more to build high speed rail in the UK than in France and said the time taken to get ”a shovel in the ground” on large projects was “ridiculous”.

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