Brick by brick: UK builders gear up for post-pandemic boom despite global gloom

Construction firms are recovering from an inflationary rise during the pandemic that sent the cost of everything from timber to concrete blocks soaring. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA

Plasterboard should be in plentiful supply when Labour’s building boom gets under way later this year, says John Sinfield.

His new £170m factory near Bristol will dramatically cut the need for imports of the essential building product, he argues.