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Former chancellor George Osborne says it would be a ‘gross act of vandalism’ to axe the northern leg of the high-speed network

Former chancellor George Osborne said it would be a ‘gross act of vandalism’ to axe the northern leg of the high-speed network.

Exclusive: Major donor questioning ‘ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester leg

Rishi Sunak is said to be preparing to announce a cut in the levy – or even scrap it altogether

Viability of northern leg in doubt after rumours Sunak and Hunt could ditch the Birmingham to Manchester section

The British government is considering scrapping a big chunk of an overdue and over-budget high-speed rail line once touted as a way to attract jobs and investment to northern England

Grant Shapps said: ‘I just lost a parent and I can understand entirely why people find inheritance tax particularly punitive.’

Exclusive: Ministers have finally confirmed what The Independent revealed weeks ago - high speed rail will not reach the north of England

The leg of HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester is in doubt because of spiralling costs.

GRANT Shapps’s Sunday morning interview with the BBC has been labelled a “car crash” as he was grilled on a range of topics and defended the…

By any Whitehall standard, the Ministry of Defence is a weird place. I am not just referring to its forbidding architectural lines, partly Orwell’s 1984 Ministry of Truth and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts, but its very nature. It is a hybrid, a frontline Whitehall ministry and an active military headquarters.