The Chancellor said he would not comment on speculation that the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the high-speed line could be axed.
The Chancellor has suggested the costs involved with building HS2 are “getting totally out of control” as he refused to comment on speculation the Manchester leg could be axed.
Mr Sunak said he would not “speculate” on the suggestion that more cuts could be made to HS2, with the Leeds terminus scrapped in 2021, when quizzed by journalists after a speech on net zero in Downing Street on Wednesday. But he added: “They will also be worried if we have an infrastructure project where the costs are getting totally out of control.“But let me say to you now, we haven’t made any decisions on this.“We are looking at all the options. But we do need to find a way of delivering infrastructure projects that doesn’t cost taxpayers billions and billions of pounds.”
The pause means Old Oak Common, in the capital’s western suburbs, will be the railway’s only London station when services to and from Birmingham Curzon Street begin between 2029 and 2033. Former chancellor George Osborne said cancelling the Manchester HS2 route would be a ‘blow’ to levelling up “I think it’ll be hard to claim you’re going to take the kind of difficult decisions for the long term if you cancel the long-term plan to build a high speed rail line that has had the support of administrations, both Labour and Conservative, over the last 15 years and go for the easy thing of caving into the lobbies who don’t want it built,” he added.
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