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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Economics correspondent

Labour’s autumn budget must reverse ‘decade of decline’ in UK infrastructure

a red and white traffic cone sits in a rain-filled pothole on a rural road
Potholes are becoming an increasingly costly problem for councils and companies alike, warns MakeUK Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Rachel Reeves has been warned by Britain’s biggest manufacturers that her autumn budget must address a decade of decline in national infrastructure that is damaging economic growth.

More than half of manufacturers surveyed by the industry group Make UK said that the country’s national road infrastructure had deteriorated in the last 10 years, making it slower and more expensive to build and export British products.

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