Sentences with phrase «infrastructure tsar»

Former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Adonis quit his job as government infrastructure tsar in protest at Brexit, which he is determined to «sabotage».

Britain will become a «laughing stock» if a decision on building a third runway at Heathrow Airport is delayed further, the Government's own infrastructure tsar warned yesterday.

Lord Adonis is calling for the resignation of transport secretary Chris Grayling for using hundreds of millions in taxpayers» money to bail out private rail companies — a decision which the former government infrastructure tsar says is symptomatic of a government that has «broken down» under the strain of Brexit.

The impression of turmoil and confusion deepened on Friday, when the Labour peer Lord Adonis resigned as May's infrastructure tsar in protest at her handling of Brexit, which he described as «a dangerous populist and nationalist spasm worthy of Donald Trump».