Ministers ignored Olympic bid warning
MINISTERS made a bid to host the 2012 Olympics despite their own experts warning it would bring little economic or social benefit, it was claimed yesterday.
A strategy document, called Game Plan, was signed off in December 2002 by the then prime minister, Tony Blair. Leading economists and civil servants found the main benefit of staging the Olympics would be a boost of national morale.
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