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Party leader says plans, including deportations and new prisons, would be paid for by scrapping HS2 and net zero

Mark Wild, HS2 Ltd chief executive, said one of the main causes of the delays was starting construction work before designs were finalised.

Beleaguered scheme two to three years behind schedule - but ‘good progress’ at Old Oak Common station

Letters: Bruce White says more thought should have been given to the question ‘What is the business need?’, Alan Peabody says stop throwing good money after bad and Tanya Firth thinks there should be a public inquiry

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Independent readers are split on the future of HS2. While some argued, ‘if you were only going to build half, you’d build the other half’ in the North, others said the project should be scrapped before more money is wasted

SCOTTISH taxpayers will have contributed billions of pounds to HS2 so should not be treated as an “after thought”, the SNP have said.

Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill said the flagship development has gone ‘badly wrong’.

Five days after farmer Edward Cavenagh-Mainwaring was forced to sell 250 acres, the northern leg of the HS2 line was axed - now he fears he’ll never be able to get the land back