The Telegraph reported that businessman Jonathan Oppenheimer has said Britain is 'uninvestable' because 'straightforward projects can take decades to complete.' Mr Oppenheimer, a billionaire with family links to a diamond mining dynasty, said the dualling of the A66 is a key example of this. A campaign group lost its bid to challenge the dualling project in the high court in October 2024. Mr Oppenheimer told the Bloomberg Africa Business Summit: "So long as the UK takes 30 years to do a nine-month project, it's uninvestable." He said that because of slow decision-making and planning rules, it is not worth putting money into the UK.

Source: The Times November 23, 2025 05:12 UTC