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Friday newspaper round-up: Cancelled govt projects, oil and gas tax raid, recession risk

By Michele Maatouk

Date: Friday 22 May 2026

(Sharecast News) - Cancelled government projects such as the Rwanda deportation scheme and the road tunnel under Stonehenge are wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money a year, parliament's spending watchdog has found. About £6.6bn was written off by government departments last year alone - state spending that did not achieve...

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