Elizabeth Line branded a ‘folie de grandeur’ in Treasury campaign against Crossrail Transport and infrastructure Tory Chancellor Kenneth Clarke warned that initial plans for the Elizabeth Line were a “folie de grandeur” that taxpayers would be unwilling to foot the bill, during a protracted rearguard action against the megaproject by the Treasury in the 1990s, City PM can reveal. According to a fraught set of ministerial correspondence released to the [...]
