I just wanted to point out that the roads review was looking at pipeline development schemes without an approval for construction final cost or capital funding allocated for delivery. And that's the whole point of an investment pipeline: something the Tories simply seem to not understand. Schemes are developed, some go ahead, some don't, and with our capital budget now 8 per cent lower in real terms due to the economic illiteracy of the current UK Government, and of the ones preceding this particular Tory Government, we lack the capital investment necessary to make all the economic interventions that all Governments need to make, and because of those reckless decisions taken in Westminster, we absolutely now have to prioritise.

So, let's just take the example of the Flintshire red route. The development work that consultants have carried out in support of the project showed local congestion returning to current levels within 15 years of construction, much like the M25 example quoted by Mike Hedges.