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

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

Labour says HS2 costs almost trebled while Sunak was chief secretary to the Treasury, chancellor and then PM

Regional leaders express dismay at prospect of ditching high-speed rail project’s northern leg

Sadiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory

Mayor of London Saqiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory.

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Chris Philp said Mr Sunak was reviewing how the cost of HS2 could be ‘controlled’.

Train Talk: HS2 is the very definition of how not to run a railway project – and how to destroy a dream

HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds has been scrapped

As he prepares for what may be his last party conference as Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is working on a truly unpleasant gift for Manchester, host city to the gathering that opens on Sunday. Though ministers insist that no final decision has been taken, they have conspicuously declined to deny…

In today’s newsletter: As the government prepares to scale down its ambitious high speed rail project again, we explore what happened