"UK wasting ‘tens of billions’ on crumbling infrastructure and badly run projects"
While this is true I suspect that (at the risk of letting this and previous governments off the hook a little) Treasury-Brain has a lot to do with this failure.
@avon_deer “Out of date IT systems” or “It’s cheaper in the very short term to maintain this legacy system and not upgrade. The super high costs in the long term are my successors problem.”