Autumn Statement: Labour claims Government has wasted two years after reversing decision to cancel A1 upgrade
– Rachel Reeves MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the TreasuryThe last Labour government announced the planned upgrade for the North
Yorkshire section of the A1 near Leeming in 2008, and George Osborne
cancelled it in 2010. If he hadn't meddled with it the new improved road
would have been due to open in 2014. So all he's done is waste more than
two years - another piece of damaging incompetence from this hapless
chancellor."