Building Back Better: have the UK’s infrastructure priorities changed?

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Infrastructure investment was a key part of the government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda. But that was before C19 hit. If the way we live and work is set to change for good, are our pre-virus assumptions about what we need in terms of energy and transport still true? How should major infrastructure projects be funded now? How can they be greener, faster and create more jobs? And how are these decisions best made?

Editor: Matt d’Ancona, Editor and Partner, Tortoise

`This ThinkIn is in partnership with EDF.

Our invited experts include:

Jesse Norman MP, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire from 2010, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from May 2019.

Colin Matthews, Non-Executive Chairman of EDF in the UK, and former Chair of Highways England and Chair of the Highways Agency.

Tristia Harrison, CEO TalkTalk.

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