Labour peer says prime minister has become ‘voice of Ukip’ as he resigns as chair of National Infrastructure CommissionAndrew Adonis,the former Labour minister, has resigned as chair of the government-backed National Infrastructure Commission in protest at Theresa May’s management of Brexit, or describing the process as “a dangerous populist and nationalist spasm worthy of Donald Trump”.
The former transport secretary headed the body that makes recommendations to the government on projects such as the tall-speed rail link HS2. Most recently he recommended that 1m recent homes be built in the “brain belt” spanning Oxford,Cambridge and Milton Keynes.
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Source: guardian.co.uk