Eurotunnel
Morton will be best remembered for his time at Eurotunnel, the railway tunnel opened in 1994 which runs underneath the English Channel and links France and Great Britain. He was appointed co-chairman in 1987.
The tunnel was a great engineering achievement, but it was also a testament to Morton's iron determination that it should not founder under a welter of claims and counter-claims of engineering firms or pressures from financial institutions and investors. The project cost more than twice its projected £4.8 billion price tag.
The Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher had insisted that the project had to pay its own way, and the UK legislation which authorised and facilitated the project contained an outright ban on any British public subsidy for the works.
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