That Ben Houchen, by design or incompetence, gave away hundreds of £millions of our assets for pennies to two local businessmen is a scandal.
Generations of Teessiders will be left poorer while the families of those involved profit from contracts and buy themselves £300,000 Rolls-Royce Cullinans.
Eddie Burfi
Commercial terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the south bank of the River Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UK’s most deprived regions has turned into a half-a-billion-pounds-plus enrichment scheme for a couple of local businessmen.
