Construction industry gossip: Sajid Javid at an HS2 site and Jeremy Corbyn quipping

By Hansom2020-02-21T06:00:00

Gossip on Sajid Javid visiting Curzon Street, snazzy Wood Wharf properties and the fate of Heathrow’s third runway

Have some foresite

Last Tuesday, Sajid Javid visited the HS2 Curzon Street site with his boss Boris Johnson in Birmingham, just hours after the government had given the scheme the green light. Within 48 hours, the chancellor was out. Meanwhile, in Oxfordshire, science minister Chris Skidmore was visiting a research facility that Mace is building in Harwell. A couple of days later he, too, was history. The moral of the story, it would seem, is that if you’re a cabinet member, don’t go to a construction site in the week of a reshuffle. Worse things can happen than the odd wrench dropped on a toe.

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