Boris Johnson blew £900,000 to find out bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland is too expensive to build

BORIS Johnson blew £900,000 of taxpayer's cash to find out it was too expensive to build a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland.

The PM's long-running dream would have cost an eye-watering £335billion – while a tunnel would cost around £200billion.

However, rail chiefs round that "the benefits could not possibly outweigh the costs" and the plan was formally binned.

The idea was also thrown into chaos by the one-million-tonne pile of World War I explosives which lie on the proposed route, and would need to be declared safe to build on.

The research was conducted as part of Sir Peter Hendy's wider travel review into the connectivity of the UK.

Willie Rennie, economy spokesman for the Scottish Liberal Democrats, said: "This is a gobsmacking sum to have spent on a PR stunt.

"It sounds like something that the Prime Minister came up with at 2am at a Downing Street party."

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