the Government’s pledge to bring faster broadband to rural areas by 2025
You can keep fibre in the air merely by nailing it to a pole.
Government is really quite simple - decide what you want to achieve and find the most effective way of delivering it. The reason we have a succession of terrible governments is that they start from the position that they have some dodgy mates and a garage full of bankrupt stock and then look for some sort of "policy" for which that might be an advantage.