Prime Minister will reprioritise transport funding to other schemes
is expected to announce plans to ditch phase 2 of high speed line from Birmingham to Manchester in order to focus on improving local transport infrastructure in the North, Sky News has reported.
understands this is unlikely to result in Northern Powerhouse Rail linking Liverpool to Hull being built as this is reliant on HS2 phase 2b linking Manchester Airport to Manchester Piccadilly being delivered.Mr Sunak failed to commit to the northern leg of HS2 when he appeared on a number of local radio shows last week, amid claims that costs are spiralling “out of control”.
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