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The Latest Breaking News from HS2

Rishi Sunak accused of ‘cancelling the future’ with climbdown over HS2

Anger over scrapping of Manchester leg of infrastructure projects risks derailing Tory party conference

The Guardian - UK

HS2 northern leg scrapped – weeks after The Independent revealed Rishi Sunak’s plan to axe it

PM set to make announcement after we first revealed ‘Project Redwood’ talks to shelve high-speed rail link

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt signals axe for HS2’s northern leg as he slams ‘totally unacceptable’ costs

Chancellor questions why it costs ‘10 times more’ to build high-speed rail in UK than France

The Independent UK

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Sunak faces open revolt over refusal to back tax cuts

(And he STILL won’t come clean about plan to cancel northern leg of HS2)

The Independent UK

Pressure on Sunak as his own former levelling up minister calls for HS2 to be finished in full

Dehenna Davison and Jake Berry join backlash against PM’s move to axe northern leg

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak repeatedly dodges questions on the future of HS2 Manchester link up

RISHI Sunak repeatedly dodged questions on whether HS2 will run to Manchester during a car crash TV interview.

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak refuses to commit to HS2 Manchester route

Reports have stated the Prime Minister is considering trimming the route from Birmingham to Manchester due to rising costs

Evening Standard

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£9bn Thames tunnel faces axe amid fears over Tory infrastructure plans

Rishi Sunak failure to commit to HS2’s northern leg has raised concerns about the future of several large-scale transport projects

The Guardian - UK

‘No one knows what we stand for’: Tory MPs in despair ahead of Sunak’s crucial conference

With the party riven by factions and differences on policy, the prime minister has a job on his hands trying to find a coherent way forward

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak promises to use Tory conference to set out long-term vision for UK

The Prime Minister is set to face questions over the future of HS2 and further calls to set out tax cuts while in Manchester.

The Independent UK

The Observer view on HS2: a failure of nerve by Rishi Sunak would be disastrous

The prime minister’s apparent wavering on the high-speed rail link could have knock-on effects for Britain for decades

The Guardian - UK

Theresa May the latest former PM to urge Sunak not to trim HS2 as Tory Party Conference set to begin

The row over HS2 could derail this year's Tory Party Conference

Evening Standard

‘I’m not commenting on speculation’: Mark Harper refuses 10 times to answer questions on HS2

In an excruciating BBC interview, the transport secretary sticks resolutely to the party line on rail link … and fails to answer the question

The Guardian - UK

Theresa May piles pressure on Sunak not to scrap HS2

She joins calls by fellow ex-PMs Boris Johnson and David Cameron over fears scrapping line into Euston will disrupt trains from her constituency

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

‘Cost of living, tax, potholes. It makes me angry’: Tamworth voters turn on Tories ahead of byelection

The dithering over HS2 has added to anger in the Midlands town and Sunak’s party will be hard pressed to hold on to Chris Pincher’s former seat

The Independent UK

Theresa May becomes latest ex-premier to urge Rishi Sunak not to trim HS2

The former Conservative leader said more capacity was required on trains to the North West and that HS2 should terminate at Euston.

Evening Standard

Transport Secretary refuses to commit to HS2 Manchester leg as pressure builds on PM to ‘finish the job’

The route to Leeds was scrapped in 2021 due to surging costs

The Independent UK

Transport Secretary swerves HS2 questions as ministers told to ‘finish the job’

Former attorney general Sir Jeremy Wright said a high-speed line only from London to Birmingham would never have received sign-off from Parliament.

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The Independent UK

Transport secretary refuses eight times to talk about HS2 in painful BBC clash

Mark Harper refuses to discuss future of high-speed rail in excruciating radio interview – as Theresa May joins furious Tory backlash

The Guardian - UK

Tories face frosty reception in Manchester as future of HS2 in doubt

Any rollback of' levelling up commitments in north could anger ‘red wall’ voters who swung to Conservatives

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: The badgers dug their own HS2 overnight

Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway: After I exposed fresh earth with some hedgerow ‘laying’, they set to work with a feat of remarkable engineering

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson: Cutting HS2 route to Manchester would be betrayal of North

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly refused to commit to the high-speed rail route linking Birmingham and Manchester.

The Independent UK

Revealed: Proof PM knows cutting HS2 would lead to chaos

Secret document leaked to The Independent details dire consequences of cancelling high-speed rail extension – as Boris Johnson says Sunak would be ‘out of his mind’ to scrap it

The Independent UK

Sunak and Hunt will be ‘out of their minds to cancel HS2’, says Boris Johnson

Former PM tells successor ‘cut the cackle and get on with it’

The Guardian - UK

£600m of public money spent buying up property in north of England for HS2

Homes and land purchased to make way for line that now appears to be in doubt, as Rishi Sunak refuses to commit to it

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