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The Prime Minister seemed set to scale back HS2 amid announcements on cutting the size of the Civil Service and imposing tougher benefits conditions.

There is no plausible path out of stagnation but to become a higher – and better – spending Britain

Sunak refuses to speculate on his own speculation over future of Birmingham to Manchester leg

I don’t know about you, but I’m suffering from chronic metaphor fatigue. There is nothing that goes horribly wrong, falls apart, arrives late, costs too much, delays millions and undermines our sanity that cannot be co-opted as a metaphor for Britain’s dysfunction in 2023. Everyone wants to control the narrative…

Former HS2 chairman fires back at ‘short sighted’ ministers and says axing northern leg would be ‘scandalous’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has often received criticism from his political opponents for travelling across the country by private jet or helicopter.

With reported alarm about salaries and spending, we look at what senior HS2 executives earn

‘Let Rishi be Rishi’, is the new Tory catchphrase. So far, that seems to be code for ‘let Britain be rubbish’ – and Suella Braverman is circling, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

PM believes ‘ballooning bill is far worse than anyone knows’