"Is there not is a fast-track procedure for “infrastructure of strategic national significance”? If so, best use it!"
yeah - they were talking about it - then the Tory MP's (whose leaders thought the thing up) realised that it would be used to impose HS2, Gatwick Runway2, windfarms, new M ways right through their constituencies, the Green Belt and their homes in the country so it sort of hit a large brick wall called self-interest
besides it is so sweeping it will be tied up in the courts for donkey's years