Bridging the Tories’ infrastructure gap | Letters

Reader Nick Mayer highlights the vital role of infrastructure projects in rebooting Britain’s economy, while others examine the Institute of Directors’ recent call for more airport runwaysLarry Elliott notes (Ten years after Blair, the old problems remain, 15 May) that social-democratic ideas for infrastructure investment will seem more mainstream if there is another crisis. We surely face such urgency today, with not a moment to lose. The Tory record is woeful: the weakest reco