The Latest Breaking News from HS2

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.

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.

The project is shrouded in uncertainty and other countries’ railway constructions appear to be cheaper

Sources suggest PM could announce new spending on bus, tram and train schemes if he decides to axe part of HS2

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

For far too long Rishi Sunak had been held back by successive Tory governments. Time for some unspecified action

The first buses bought back into public control since the 1980s roll out the depot in a ‘new dawn’ for public transport