Rishi Sunak is considering scrapping or delaying the leg of HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester in response to soaring costs.
Rishi Sunak has insisted he is committed to levelling up despite declining to back building HS2 to the North in the face of warnings by senior Tories not to axe the rail project.
But Tory former chancellor George Osborne and ex-Conservative deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine were among senior figures warning that axing the Manchester route would be a “gross act of vandalism” which would mean “abandoning” the North and Midlands. “And transport infrastructure is a key part of that, not just big rail projects, but also local projects, improving local bus services, fixing pot holes, all of these things make a difference in people’s day-to-day lives.”
Mr Osborne and Lord Heseltine, writing in The Times, warned that governments “are remembered for what they build and create”.If the northern section is cancelled, they added, “the remaining stump, little more than a shuttle service from Birmingham to a London suburb, would become an international symbol of our decline”.
“It would seem very odd for us to be in Manchester next week and can a project to Manchester,” Mr Brine told BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour.
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