P.F. Eye
An Idiot's Guide to the PFI
By Paul Foot
Norman Lamont tinkered with it. John Major approved it. But the intellectual thrust for the idea of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) came from David Willetts, the Tory frontbencher nicknamed 'Two Brains'.
This is the story of the PFI: how it became a jewel in the crown of New Labour, its savings, its costs, its pitfalls and windfalls, and how it changed the face of British accountancy and British politics.
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Toxic shock
MD on the Cass Review
Tory darling
The police chief behind the Angela Rayner investigation
Broken records
Why the Post Office seems to have learnt nothing
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