In 2008, the Labour government established the Infrastructure Planning Commission to oversee nationally significant projects in England and Wales.
In 2010, the Tory manifesto pledged the abolition of this unelected body to be replaced by an “efficient and democratically accountable system that provides a fast-track system for major infrastructure projects”.
This was one of the Tory planks of the coalition agreement and the Infrastructure Planning Commission was duly abolished in 2012.
A National Infrastructure Commission was promised by Labour in their 2015 manifesto. The Conservatives did not include it in their so-called ‘long-term economic plan’.
Today, we have George Osborne delivering on Labour’s promise – and doing a U-turn just three years after abolishing a very similar unelected body.
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