Boris Johnson slams UK's infrastructure record, then proposes Channel bridge

Boris Johnson lambasted the UK’s record at delivering major infrastructure projects just days before raising the prospect of erecting a 22-mile bridge across the English Channel to better connect Britain to the rest of Europe.The foreign secretary criticised systems of planning as being “extremely inimical at getting things done at pace and scale” and warned that Britain spent billions more than countries such as France on equivalent projects.In an interview with the Guardian,