The Labour leader instead urged the Prime Minister to ‘get on with it’ himself.
Sir Keir Starmer has declined to commit to building HS2 in full if Rishi Sunak abandons plans to build the high-speed rail route to the North.
Downing Street has refused to guarantee that trains will run from the Midlands to Manchester after scrapping the Leeds legs already as it seeks to save billions. Labour sources made clear they do not want to go further than the Government by promising to complete the project in full because they would then need to find additional funding.
“We’ve always supported it and I think the Government needs to end the chaos now, make a statement and make clear that it will hold good on the promises it has made,” he told broadcasters during a visit to French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
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