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Theresa May piles pressure on Sunak not to scrap HS2

She joins calls by fellow ex-PMs Boris Johnson and David Cameron over fears scrapping line into Euston will disrupt trains from her constituency

The Independent UK

‘Cost of living, tax, potholes. It makes me angry’: Tamworth voters turn on Tories ahead of byelection

The dithering over HS2 has added to anger in the Midlands town and Sunak’s party will be hard pressed to hold on to Chris Pincher’s former seat

The Guardian - UK

Theresa May becomes latest ex-premier to urge Rishi Sunak not to trim HS2

The former Conservative leader said more capacity was required on trains to the North West and that HS2 should terminate at Euston.

The Independent UK

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Transport Secretary refuses to commit to HS2 Manchester leg as pressure builds on PM to ‘finish the job’

The route to Leeds was scrapped in 2021 due to surging costs

Evening Standard

Transport Secretary swerves HS2 questions as ministers told to ‘finish the job’

Former attorney general Sir Jeremy Wright said a high-speed line only from London to Birmingham would never have received sign-off from Parliament.

The Independent UK

Transport secretary refuses eight times to talk about HS2 in painful BBC clash

Mark Harper refuses to discuss future of high-speed rail in excruciating radio interview – as Theresa May joins furious Tory backlash

The Independent UK

Tories face frosty reception in Manchester as future of HS2 in doubt

Any rollback of' levelling up commitments in north could anger ‘red wall’ voters who swung to Conservatives

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Country diary: The badgers dug their own HS2 overnight

Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway: After I exposed fresh earth with some hedgerow ‘laying’, they set to work with a feat of remarkable engineering

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson: Cutting HS2 route to Manchester would be betrayal of North

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly refused to commit to the high-speed rail route linking Birmingham and Manchester.

The Independent UK

Revealed: Proof PM knows cutting HS2 would lead to chaos

Secret document leaked to The Independent details dire consequences of cancelling high-speed rail extension – as Boris Johnson says Sunak would be ‘out of his mind’ to scrap it

The Independent UK

Sunak and Hunt will be ‘out of their minds to cancel HS2’, says Boris Johnson

Former PM tells successor ‘cut the cackle and get on with it’

The Independent UK

£600m of public money spent buying up property in north of England for HS2

Homes and land purchased to make way for line that now appears to be in doubt, as Rishi Sunak refuses to commit to it

The Guardian - UK

Sunak and Hunt can’t play shocked at HS2’s cost overruns

Yes, the costs of the high-speed rail project are getting ‘totally out of control’ – but it’s hardly lacked political oversight

The Guardian - UK

Union bosses demand emergency HS2 meeting: ‘Economic benefits must not be squandered’

Union bosses say huge economic benefits of HS2’s northern leg ‘must not be squandered because of ongoing Conservative incompetence’

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The Conversation

How HS2 caused the UK to lose focus on 'levelling up' during years of high-speed rail delays

Pressure on the UK government to confirm its plans for the controversial HS2 high-speed rail project is growing as the Conservative party prepares for its annual conference.

The Independent UK

Get back on track, Mr Sunak: Britain’s big business bosses in exasperated rallying call over HS2

PM urged to ‘stop dithering’ as he refuses 12 times to rule out plan to scrap northern leg, as first revealed by The Independent

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak says he won’t be ‘rushed’ into HS2 decision as critics’ anger grows

PM denies high-speed rows are derailing the Tory conference in Manchester

The Independent UK

Now Sunak blames Covid for failing railways – as he refuses 12 times to say if HS2 will be scrapped

The PM said Covid-19 caused everyone to ‘stop travelling on the rail network’, which has made running train services ‘very difficult’ - as he suggested fixing potholes was ‘priority number one’

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The Guardian - UK

Sunak skirts more than a dozen questions over future of HS2

PM remains tight-lipped about rail project’s Manchester leg and says his focus is on potholes and local buses

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak refuses to endorse Suella Braverman’s claim multiculturalism has failed – as it happened

The PM instead praised the UK’s ‘fantastic multicultural democracy’, saying the nation has done an ‘incredible job of integrating people’

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak denies people feel betrayed by wavering over future of HS2

The Prime Minister did not rule out ditching the northern leg of the rail project.

The Guardian - UK

Every time a project like HS2 becomes a costly fiasco, we wonder why. So let me tell you: it’s clientelism

The relationship between those profiting from these big projects and those in power is such that no one truly costs or controls them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Pulling plug on HS2 ‘would be final nail in coffin for levelling up’

Exclusive: Business leaders and politicians in north of England say scrapping high-speed rail link would threaten businesses and jobs

The Independent UK

Sunak warned he is ‘risking cohesion of country’ as Labour mayors meet over HS2

Labour mayors Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and Steve Rotheram gathered in Leeds to warn against further rail cuts.

The Independent UK

Boss of HS2 building firm savages Rishi Sunak over scrapping new London station

Mark Reynolds says it will take longer to travel the five miles from Old Oak Common to London than the previous 114 miles from Birmingham

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