Put your money where your mouth is, Cameron

摘要

This week David Cameron promised that the government was embarking on an "all-out mission" to get construction projects off the ground (news, page 5). Let's hope, to borrow another of the Prime Minister's recent soundbites, that he gets out his "big bazooka". The rhetoric is certainly encouraging. The emphasis on the need to create jobs in construction and the recognition that the country's infrastructure must be overhauled if the UK is to compete with the rest of the world in terms of productivity, suggests the industry is finally succeeding in communicating its importance more effectively. It's not often the Prime Minister gives construction top billing.