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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Leagues apart
MD on the NHS's sack race
Rays of sunshine
The Florida supremacy in Trump's US
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