Boris’s Britain
Our doubts are the cost and how much can be delivered.
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Boris Johnson’s post-Covid programme will chime with millionsCredit: Reuters
Despite our gargantuan pandemic bill, billions more will be spent revolutionising the train and bus network to match London’s.
That is a vital step in the regional “levelling-up” agenda.
So are the Lifetime Skills Guarantee ensuring funding for job training at any age the new freeports and the bonfire of planning rules to get affordable homes built much more quickly.
We applaud the ban on illegal migrants settling here, the fines for universities “no platforming” non-woke speakers and the threatened shutdowns for social media sites spreading child abuse or terrorism content.
‘FIGHT FOR JUSTICE’
Air France and Airbus face manslaughter trial over 2009 ‘pilot error’ crash that killed 228 people including five Brits
Peter Allen in Paris
Updated: May 12 2021, 8:57 ET
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AIR France and Airbus are to face a manslaughter trial for a horror jet crash which killed 228 people including five Brits, judges ruled today.
The Appeal Court decision in Paris follows a 12-year fight for justice by families of those who lost their lives in the worst air disaster in French history.
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The Air France passenger jet at the centre of the worst air disaster in French historyCredit: AFP