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

Economy held back by ailing transport network, with poor roads adding to logistics costs, say manufacturers

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.