Will a new decade see the end of old mistakes?

By Richard Steer2020-01-06T10:51:00

The government has a mandate to change an industry bogged down in the same issues as last year – but don’t expect many to be solved straight away

With the government only weeks into its tenure and the administration’s influence so potentially pivotal for all our fortunes, it is perhaps a fool’s errand to try to predict the future for our industry in 2020. But here goes anyway…

This time last year I predicted the 2019 headline-grabbers would be Brexit, infrastructure, HS2, contractor bankruptcy and housing. I am already getting a Groundhog-Day kind of feeling for this year.

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