When Rishi Sunak used last month’s spending review to lay out plans for a new infrastructure bank, the sceptics might have been tempted to see it as the latest government initiative likely to get snared in the weeds.
Successive administrations have made bold claims to pour billions into road, rail, prison and education improvement programmes, only for projects to become mired in delays and wrangles over construction risks.
Could it be different this time? The stock market seemed to have high hopes that the chancellor’s promise might yield results, sending shares in companies involved in infrastructure higher on the day the review was published.
Among them was BBGI Global Infrastructure, which backs just these sorts of projects and could get involved, possibly to the
