Construction industry gossip: What a year that was!

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2020-12-11T06:00:00

After the 12 months we’ve had we all need some light relief

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A shot in the arm for all of us

As the first people in the UK – quite possibly the world – begin to receive the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine, we can rest assured that the person in charge of it is a man familiar to this industry – sort of – namely former construction minister Nadhim Zahawi, who has been appointed to the new role of minister for covid vaccine deployment. Zahawi has now passed on the construction portfolio to Kwasi Kwarteng, but not all were wildly celebrating his recent promotion to fighting the pandemic. Deborah Meaden, businesswoman and star of TV show Dragons’ Den, was among those expressing their doubts. “What”, she tweeted when the news was announced, “could possibly go wrong.”

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