Introducing the new planning gatekeeper
Sir Michael Pitt, the man who wrote an official report into the government’s flood response in 2007, was last week named as new chairman of the Infrastructure Planning Commission.
The body will be very powerful (presuming it survives a general election in 2010) given it can push through big projects like nuclear power stations or wind farms, over-riding local councils. Read more
The legal actions against RBS
The Times carried the front page story today that Cherie Blair has been hired by two local authority funds (North Yorkshire and Merseyside) to seek compensation from the fall in the RBS share price. Read more
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Kiran Stacey is an FT political correspondent, having joined the lobby in 2011. He started at the FT as a graduate trainee in 2008, working on desks including UK companies and US equity markets before taking over the FT's Energy Source blog.
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