Driver Dave kept waiting as Osborne stalls over delivering infrastructure

There’s suspicion about whether the chancellor can deliver his plans to spend £100bn this parliament on schemes such as new roads and power stationsIt takes Dave Newton up to half an hour to drive into Manchester city centre at the weekend. But on Monday morning, and for the rest of the week, that same nine-mile journey takes up to two hours.Since Newton moved to Oldham 13 years ago, traffic delays have become “gradually worse”. In the last few months things got “ve