THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO DELIVER THOUSANDS MORE APPRENTICESHIPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Three years after Labour produced a detailed proposal for the building of high speed rail (HS2) routes in Britain, the Tories have this week finally announced their own scheme. Unfortunately the wasted years of uncertainty means work won’t begin until 2017 at the earliest.

The best that can be said of these delays is that it’s ‘better late than never’, especially for our economy which is on