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The cancellation of the northern leg of HS2, the high-speed rail project supposed to link London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, has been a controversial decision that has sparked debate among politicians, businesses and environmentalists. One o…
Rishi Sunak[1] has been accused of making up fake roads in a bid to distract from his HS2[2] shambles.
Labour[3]’s Lou Haigh warned that jobs will be lost because of the PM’s decision to cancel the high speed line to Manchester. In the Commons, the Sha…
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This week’s news that the Government wants to scrap HS2 Phase 2 is a devastating blow to the North, the Midlands, the railway industry and the whole UK economy.
For 15 years rail businesses e…
Money salvaged from the abandoned phase of the HS2 high-speed railway should be rechanneled to ignite construction of the ‘much-need’ Leeds-Langley relief road, a Kent councillor said.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the cancellation of the rest o…
The HS2 affair has highlighted a number of weaknesses in UK public administration. The list is rather long, much like the prime minister’s shopping list of new and old transport schemes.
Most obviously there is the “presidential” style of the statement…
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If you consider the decision[1] by the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to cancel phase two of the high-speed rail project, HS2[2] in the context of the government’s growing pro-car stance, the potential ramifications for the country a…
Downing Street has called it the ‘recast’ of HS2[1]. The end of the line for high-speed rail to Manchester[2] was announced on Wednesday (October 4).
Rishi Sunak said his government now wants to make sure the multi-billion-pound scheme is part of a ‘bl…
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7 October 2023
Two miles from my home, HS2 has carved a scar across the landscape, across which trains might eventually take passengers between London and Birmingham more slowly than they do today.
What’s surprising is that, despite a loc…
Labour will not undo Rishi Sunak’s decision to scrap HS2, as the party will work with what inherits at the next election, “not the one we wished we did” as top shadow cabinet minister has said.
In an exclusive interview with The Yorkshire Post ahead o…
Tory ministers have invited American rail bosses to visit Britain next week to learn lessons from the botched HS2 project.
Executives from California High Speed Rail will arrive on Wednesday for a two-day trip organised by Kemi Badenoch[1]’s Department…