HS2

A “fire sale” of land bought for HS2 north of Birmingham is set to cost the taxpayer more than £100 million, analysis has revealed. The government is poised to sell off land within weeks to prevent future administrations from reversing…

Rishi Sunak axed the northern leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line to Manchester, promised sweeping education reforms and announced a smoking crackdown as he told the Conservative party conference he would take “radical” decisions to change…

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Five Labour mayors have urged Rishi Sunak not to scrap, delay or scale back HS2 as it would “leave swathes of the north with Victorian transport infrastructure that is unfit for purpose”. Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Oliver…