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Government disagrees with HS2 estimate showing ‘significant’ cost rise

HS2 Ltd calculated in September that building the line between London and the West Midlands would cost between £49 billion and £57 billion.

The Independent UK

Cameron’s comeback explodes Sunak’s ‘change candidate’ claim

PM clearly hopes to rewrite the narrative with shock appointment, but will it shift the dial with voters?

The Guardian - UK

HS2 contractor: 'We won't stop digging until we reach Euston'

Tunnelling to start in 2026 - despite Government sending rail link into buffers

Evening Standard

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Ancient pear tree comes back to life after being felled to make way for HS2

Beloved tree in Cubbington, thought over 250 years old, is regrowing from transplanted stump and its cutting offspring are also thriving

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak forced to delete video listing 'achievements' after unbelievable error

IT’S been quite the year for Rishi Sunak. From HS2 to bizarre jibes about Nicola Sturgeon, it wasn’t exactly difficult for us to come up with a…

The National (Scotland)

‘Securonomics’: five key business messages from Labour conference

With company chiefs in attendance and an endorsement from Mark Carney, shadow chancellor sought to demonstrate economic competence

The Guardian - UK

‘Confidential – that gets me going’: the photographer behind the HS2 exposé

How Steve Back has broken a number of exclusives by snapping the documents of unsuspecting politicians and officials

The Guardian - UK

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‘I just don’t think he cares’: Workington Tory voters’ verdict on Rishi Sunak

My research group spoke to 2019’s first-time Tory voters in Cumbria, seen as embodying Boris Johnson’s realignment

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve gone through bereavement’: HS2 bought this man’s land, and for what?

Edward Cavenagh-Mainwaring’s fields were bought up five days before Sunak scrapped HS2. He fears he’ll never be able to buy them back

The Guardian - UK

What the papers say – October 6

Political stories feature on front of Friday’s newspapers as fallout continues from Prime Minister’s conference speech.

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on HS2 cancellation: mind the north-south gap

Editorial: Rishi Sunak promotes himself as a leader who takes long-term decisions for the national benefit, but this one is the exact opposite

The Guardian - UK

Minister defends No 10 claim that HS2 decision had not yet been taken despite prerecorded announcement - as it happened

Video of Rishi Sunak announcing the axing of the HS2 Manchester leg was filmed in No 10 before he travelled to conference

The Guardian - UK

Humza Yousaf pans Rishi Sunak for 'wiping Scotland off map' in transport plans

THE First Minister has panned Rishi Sunak after the Tory leader shared a map about plans to “level up” the north – which omitted most of…

The National (Scotland)

‘Like a boozy wake’: HS2 and infighting overshadow Tory conference

Rishi Sunak’s hope to present his leadership as a clear change from his predecessors fails to win over a flagging party faithful

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Key moments of Sunak’s HS2-cutting, ‘beauty pageant’ of a Tory conference

The Prime Minister struggled to keep his own party under control amid bleak prospects for a general election.

The Independent UK

Staffordshire villagers ‘suffered because of HS2 and should be compensated’

Residents will be ‘relieved’ to hear the line from Birmingham to Manchester has been axed, a parish council chairman has said.

The Guardian - UK

Congrats, Rishi: you’ve got a party so dreadful that Nigel Farage has turned you down

Liz Truss’s return, the PM’s HS2 dithering, Mr Brexit himself: no Netflix doc could truly ‘make sense’ of this Tory conference, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Braverman suggests support for immigration is a ‘luxury belief’ and claims ‘hurricane’ of mass migration is coming – as it happened

Home secretary says Tories were ‘too squeamish’ in past to deal with immigration properly from fear of being called racist

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The Independent UK

Sunak makes pitch to Tory right as Truss draws conference crowd

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

The Guardian - UK

HS2, Raac, potholes: the symptoms of a lack of investment are everywhere

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

The Independent UK

Tories heading for landslide election defeat, says Britain’s top pollster

Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s torture’: communities left in property limbo by HS2 indecision

While some living in the path of the planned railway sold up, others have stayed put, unsure when or even if they will be forced out

Evening Standard

HS2 boss resigns amid speculation of further cuts

HS2 Ltd boss Mark Thurston leaves his role on Friday

The Guardian - UK

‘We are a political project’: how HS2’s costs have spiralled out of control

Placating Conservatives in marginal seats, inflation in construction and a maze of bureaucracy have seen the cost balloon from £32bn to £71bn

The Guardian - UK

Rish! fails to lay it on the line as local radio demands HS2 answers

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

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