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£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

The Guardian - UK

Sunak and Hunt can’t play shocked at HS2’s cost overruns

Yes, the costs of the high-speed rail project are getting ‘totally out of control’ – but it’s hardly lacked political oversight

The Guardian - UK

Union bosses demand emergency HS2 meeting: ‘Economic benefits must not be squandered’

Union bosses say huge economic benefits of HS2’s northern leg ‘must not be squandered because of ongoing Conservative incompetence’

The Independent UK

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How HS2 caused the UK to lose focus on 'levelling up' during years of high-speed rail delays

Pressure on the UK government to confirm its plans for the controversial HS2 high-speed rail project is growing as the Conservative party prepares for its annual conference.

The Conversation

Get back on track, Mr Sunak: Britain’s big business bosses in exasperated rallying call over HS2

PM urged to ‘stop dithering’ as he refuses 12 times to rule out plan to scrap northern leg, as first revealed by The Independent

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak says he won’t be ‘rushed’ into HS2 decision as critics’ anger grows

PM denies high-speed rows are derailing the Tory conference in Manchester

Evening Standard

Now Sunak blames Covid for failing railways – as he refuses 12 times to say if HS2 will be scrapped

The PM said Covid-19 caused everyone to ‘stop travelling on the rail network’, which has made running train services ‘very difficult’ - as he suggested fixing potholes was ‘priority number one’

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Sunak skirts more than a dozen questions over future of HS2

PM remains tight-lipped about rail project’s Manchester leg and says his focus is on potholes and local buses

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak refuses to endorse Suella Braverman’s claim multiculturalism has failed – as it happened

The PM instead praised the UK’s ‘fantastic multicultural democracy’, saying the nation has done an ‘incredible job of integrating people’

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak denies people feel betrayed by wavering over future of HS2

The Prime Minister did not rule out ditching the northern leg of the rail project.

The Independent UK

Every time a project like HS2 becomes a costly fiasco, we wonder why. So let me tell you: it’s clientelism

The relationship between those profiting from these big projects and those in power is such that no one truly costs or controls them, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Pulling plug on HS2 ‘would be final nail in coffin for levelling up’

Exclusive: Business leaders and politicians in north of England say scrapping high-speed rail link would threaten businesses and jobs

The Guardian - UK

Sunak warned he is ‘risking cohesion of country’ as Labour mayors meet over HS2

Labour mayors Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and Steve Rotheram gathered in Leeds to warn against further rail cuts.

The Independent UK

Boss of HS2 building firm savages Rishi Sunak over scrapping new London station

Mark Reynolds says it will take longer to travel the five miles from Old Oak Common to London than the previous 114 miles from Birmingham

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Labour says Sunak should take blame for soaring HS2 costs as they happened on his ‘direct watch’ – as it happened

Labour says HS2 costs almost trebled while Sunak was chief secretary to the Treasury, chancellor and then PM

The Guardian - UK

Labour mayors urge Sunak not to scrap, delay or scale back HS2

Regional leaders express dismay at prospect of ditching high-speed rail project’s northern leg

The Independent UK

Five Labour mayors join forces to derail Sunak’s plan to axe HS2

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham among local leaders in talks with transport chiefs

Evening Standard

Five Labour mayors across UK join forces to urge Rishi Sunak to stay on track with HS2

Sadiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory

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Andrew Gilligan: ex-Johnson adviser said to have Sunak’s ear on HS2

Former BBC journalist who has a gift for persuasion has reportedly always been 100% opposed to rail project

The Independent UK

Five Labour mayors across UK join forces to urge Sunak to stay on track with HS2

Mayor of London Saqiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory.

The Independent UK

HS2: Five Labour mayors to demand PM keeps project on track

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Chris Philp said Mr Sunak was reviewing how the cost of HS2 could be ‘controlled’.

The Independent UK

How the Integrated Rail Plan disintegrated

Train Talk: HS2 is the very definition of how not to run a railway project – and how to destroy a dream

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s dithering over HS2 spurs on its critics and supporters

With Tory conference looming and talk of delaying decision to autumn statement, the row could intensify further

The Guardian - UK

Northern Research Group of Tory MPs signals it may accept delay to HS2

Chair, John Stevenson, says they could back a compromise on phase 2 if ‘Charles line’ preserved

The Independent UK

Labour’s Andy Burnham warns he could sue Sunak government if HS2 axed

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

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