The Latest Breaking News from HS2

Starmer and Reeves expected to announce move before Labour conference, with aim of boosting backbench morale

Train Talk: After all the squandered billions, some lessons for the future of railway expansion

Residents say early start of Lizzie line service at £2bn mega-station would be ‘game changer’ in easing woe caused by HS2 delays

HS2’s chief executive blamed the massive delays in the execution of the project on ‘inefficiency of work’

Mark Wild, HS2 Ltd chief executive, said one of the main causes of the delays was starting construction work before designs were finalised.

Beleaguered scheme two to three years behind schedule - but ‘good progress’ at Old Oak Common station

Letters: Bruce White says more thought should have been given to the question ‘What is the business need?’, Alan Peabody says stop throwing good money after bad and Tanya Firth thinks there should be a public inquiry

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Independent readers are split on the future of HS2. While some argued, ‘if you were only going to build half, you’d build the other half’ in the North, others said the project should be scrapped before more money is wasted

SCOTTISH taxpayers will have contributed billions of pounds to HS2 so should not be treated as an “after thought”, the SNP have said.