Public services industry hopes for post-election boom‏

The drive for efficiency savings in the public sector that lies at the heart of the general election campaign has helped lift shares in Britain’s biggest outsourcing companies to multi-year highs. Investors have become increasingly confident that the expanding £80bn sector is likely to be one of the few beneficiaries of the looming public spending squeeze, as the next government turns to private providers to cut costs, reports the FT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6cea8752-45cb-11df-9e46-00144feab49a.html