Tim Yeo, shadow transport spokesman, has told the Tory Party conference, in Bournemouth, that Conservatives would start modernising 100 railway stations by developing brownfield land nearby for offices and shops during the first year of government.
Developers would have to pump part of their profit back into improving the stations. The Tories would also build more roads, he said.
Michael Howard said in his first Tory Party conference speech as leader that a Conservative government would build more prisons.
He said in week one of a Tory administration, he would stop abolishing restrictions which stop good schools expanding and new ones opening.
Meanwhile, Paul Sykes, who once joined a consortium that built Meadowhall, on the outskirts of Sheffield, has buoyed the Tories buy withdrawing support for the UK Independence Party.
References: The Times (Compact) 06/10/04 page 6-8, The Daily Telegraph 06/10/04 page 8, page 9, The Independent 06/10/04 page 6, The Guardian 06/10/04 page 1, Financial Times 06/10/04 page 1, page 4
