The government’s response to the scandalous overspending on the National Children’s Hospital has been a bit like the Irish rugby team against England. Both had a sense that their line would prevail, then failed to go up a gear when that approach took a battering. Worse still, there has been an aggressive defensiveness and a disingenuous protest about how anyone could complain about the cost when we will ultimately have a “world-class” children’s hospital. The government is feeling vulnerable on this, and rightly so. “Hit me now with the children’s hospital in my…

Source: The Times February 07, 2019 00:10 UTC