Javid woos voters with £20 billion more a year on infrastructure spending
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid said a new Conservative government would spend up to £20 billion more each year on road, rail and other infrastructure projects, and there would be room for tax cuts too.If Boris Johnson is re-elected as prime minister on Dec. 12, Javid said the government would set itself new fiscal rules allowing it to spend up to 3% of annual economic output on infrastructure, higher than a historical average of around 1.8%.In a speech..