Ambition is usually a laudable trait but Boris Johnson, speaking at a London First conference on infrastructure last week, had some very fanciful goals for the capital to reach by 2050. Some of which - including towers bigger than the Shard - had been heard before, but others including a "Tube line to the suburb of Birmingham" were new, at least to my hacks. The one that got the most applause was his plan for the city's housing expansion. "By 2050 we will have a new road tunnel across the channel to allow us to relieve the overcrowding of the South-east and re-colonise the relatively sparsely inhabited area of northern France," he said. Now we just have to find some foreign investors to pay for this "re-colonisation".
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