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And here is what the Labour MP Wes Streeting is saying about the bridge plan.
We’ve been here before with vast sums of public money wasted on vanity projects like the Cable Car, Garden Bridge, and ‘Boris Island Airport’. The man never learns. https://t.co/q0nNVWZE4L
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Here is Andrew Adonis, the Labour former transport secretary, on Boris Johnson‘s proposal for a bridge linking Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The big infrastructure projects that Belfast needs are decent railway lines to Dublin and Derry. It has neither. That would cost a fraction of this ludicrous bridge to Stranraer
