Public Spending: Inheritance
Clive Lewis Excerpts
Monday 29th July 2024
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Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab)
I welcome you to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker.
My right hon. Friend the Chancellor will probably not be too surprised to hear that when it comes to wasteful and expensive vanity projects, the Conservative party has not confined itself to national matters. Conservative-run Norfolk county council is attempting to push through a £300 million vanity road known as the Norwich western link, which measures 3.9 km at a cost of more than £70 million a kilometre. Will she look at that environmental and financial disaster, and work with those of us who know that there are more cost-effective and ecologically sound alternatives?