The Latest Breaking News from HS2

‘We’re not going to take things lying down – they will be hearing from us,’ says Manchester mayor

Letters: A system built purely for speed ignores the needs of the populations it’s trying to connect, says Andrew Gore. Plus letters from David Watts, Allan Whittow and Jonathan Leeming

HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds has been scrapped

As he prepares for what may be his last party conference as Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is working on a truly unpleasant gift for Manchester, host city to the gathering that opens on Sunday. Though ministers insist that no final decision has been taken, they have conspicuously declined to deny…

Home Office minister Chris Philp insisted no decision has been made on whether to scrap or delay the Manchester leg of the rail project.

The Conservatives have turned a promising national upgrade into an absurdity, says writer and journalist Jonn Elledge

But Manchester’s Andy Burnham threatens to sue if high-speed rail doesn’t reach his city

In today’s newsletter: As the government prepares to scale down its ambitious high speed rail project again, we explore what happened

Rishi Sunak says his government is committed to ‘spreading opportunity around the country, not just in the North but in the Midlands, in all other regions of our fantastic country’

A variety of stories feature on the front of the UK’s newspapers on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister has reportedly told allies he will not watch the cost continue to rise, in a sign he could be preparing to ditch the northern leg.