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Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander desperately revamped his pie-in-the-sky list of promised major infrastructure projects yesterday to hoots of derision from Labour MPs.
The shameless Lib Dem minister also announced a bargain-basement sale of Britain's last remaining publicly owned assets - despite anger over the recent cut-price sale of Royal Mail.
Labour shadow minister Chris Leslie accused Mr Alexander of simply issuing repeat press releases promising big projects, while in reality work on such schemes had fallen by 15 per cent under this government.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
