Cameron reveals five-year £15bn roads improvements scheme

The Prime Minister is expected to provide details of a £15bn, five-year roads investment strategy should the Tories be returned to power.

16:43 10 November 2014

Prime Minister David Cameron will a announce an ambitious £15bn, five-year road-building plan to alleviate traffic congestion around key marginal constituencies the Tories need to hold or win at the next election.

 

The scheme will see road improvements across the South and East of England as well as in the Pennines and along the A1. 

 

Mr Cameron is expected to tell business leaders: “We know to secure Britain’s future, we need world-class infrastructure.” 

 

“Families need it to get around; businesses need it to create jobs; we need it to compete with the world and deliver economic security.

 

“So, whenever we have been faced with the choice between the past and the future, we have always chosen the future.”

 

According to the Independent, he will also say: “We’re the only ones who have the guts to deliver it, because when it comes to the big infrastructure decisions our country needs, we have shown we always take them.” 

 

Along with Mr Cameron, Ed Miliband is also expected to address the Confederation of British Industry whereby he will attempt to win support and will warn that if Mr Cameron is elected, there is a real chance that Britain could be forced out of the European Union.