Tag: HS2

"An astounding achievement to spend £50 billion plus on a project that will reduce rail capacity and make the trains run slower", Sam Freedman said.

Taxpayers, high skilled workers and commuters are all paying the price for the mismanagement of HS2 by the Government

Terminating HS2 at Old Oak Common would be one of the most mind-bogglingly bizarre decisions of the Sunak premiership.

Louise Haigh, the shadow transport secretary, and her team are said to have suggested they want to resurrect phase 2a of the project.

“If we do nothing, we will have a major transport headache", the Greater Manchester mayor said.

HS2 was meant to solve a capacity crisis on the rail network, but scrapping the northern leg of HS2 actually reduces capacity.

The party unveiled a list of transport projects that would be financed by cutting the northern leg of HS2, but apparently they were just "illustrative".

Cutting the line short shows the prime minister’s "contempt for the North – while the arguments used to abandon the scheme show contempt for the whole nation"

Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said Network North was a ‘back of a fag packet’ plan.