Construction industry gossip: Show me the money

By Hansom2019-06-14T11:46:00

Kier’s outgoing finance director displays uncanny vision in his purchasing restraint and Sisk’s chief exec offers a fair excuse for at least one late payment

Taking the Gove out of government

Given that Tory leadership hopeful, at the time of writing I must add, Michael Gove has admitted snorting cocaine in the past, I did wonder if his fondness for the stuff was acquired during his stint as a columnist for Building. But Gove says it all occurred 20 years ago – so long before his pieces appeared on these pages a decade ago. One, from October 2009 and headlined “The evil that men do”, recalled his Scottish Presbyterian upbringing where he was assured hell awaits “miserable sinners”. He must be a terrible disappointment to the hellfire and brimstone sermonisers (not to mention the Tory membership, if they are not the same thing).

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