Labour warns Osborne's infrastructure plan may fail

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Chancellor George Osborne's plan to convince schemes to invest £20bn into a government-backed infrastructure fund has serious "issues", Labour claims.

The Treasury has been meeting regularly with the National Association of Pension Funds and the Pension Protection Fund to discuss an arrangement where at least 2.5% of funds are invested in UK infr...

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