CIHT urges certainty as Rishi Sunak becomes new UK Prime Minister - TPA
What a bewildering last few months it has been for the UK – and indeed, everyone working with transport planning and infrastructure design consultants like our own with a view to the optimisation of the country’s transport infrastructure. The headline change in recent days, of course, has been former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s rise to the top job in UK politics, succeeding Liz Truss, who resigned amid the market turmoil and economic uncertainty following her government’s controversial “mini-budget”. Whatever one makes of these latest developments or it being Mr Sunak specifically who triumphed in the truncated Conservative Party leadership contest – which also, by default, determined the identity of the next Prime Minister – it is fair to say that such instability does not lend itself to putting in place long-term plans for transport infrastructure, although this is partly what enables the economic growth that the new Prime Minister need to address the ho...