Where is the PM putting his pounds?

This is not an enquiry into Gordon Brown's personal pension plans or how Tony Blair is carving up hi...

This is not an enquiry into Gordon Brown's personal pension plans or how Tony Blair is carving up his newly found millions from JPMorgan, but instead a glance at the world of privatisation. Putting money into government-backed projects should, politics permitting, be one of the safest places to put your money. But is investment into services and infrastructure in the UK a little too bureaucratic to be profitable? Privatisation and temptation It all began with the Conservative Government's move into privatisation in the 1990s. Under Margaret Thatcher, the construction and maintenance o...