Roger Whitfield, an independent local councillor in the West Country town of Portishead, is waiting anxiously to learn whether chancellor Rachel Reeves will make good on Labour’s investment pledges when she delivers her first Budget later this month.
Before the election, Whitfield was optimistic that his scenic waterfront town of 27,000 was on the cusp of clinching a long-promised rail link into the nearby city of Bristol. Work, he believed, would start in September.
Instead, the £152mn…
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