Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: And is it begins; seemingly forgetting how wrong it has gone before, Rachel Reeves & ...
And is it begins; seemingly forgetting how wrong it has gone before, Rachel Reeves & the Treasury are again looking at public-private partnerships for infrastructure with the explicit intent of keeping the expenditure out of the scope of her fiscal probity.
Of course it might work in theory, but we have loads of examples (perhaps most obviously in the NHS) where such arrangement have been detrimental in the longe(er) term & not delivered the advantages claimed.
#infrastructure #politics
h/t FT
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