Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted he will not be forced into ‘premature decisions’ on the project.
Rishi Sunak has insisted he will not be forced into “premature decisions” as the Prime Minister continues to refuse to say whether he will scrap the northern leg of the HS2 line.
“As I do with all the things I go through, I take the time to get it right and do what I think is right for the country,” he told Sky News. The Times reported that after intense lobbying from within his Cabinet he will say the line will terminate in Euston, in central London, rather than the western suburb of Old Oak Common.
An expanded Northern Powerhouse Rail project linking cities, and cash for potholes and bus routes, could be announced to sweeten the pill of curtailing the project feared to have spiralled past £100 billion. But Mr Burnham said reports of extra projects “will not deliver the new east-west line promised in the last three Conservative manifestos”, adding: “The North is being betrayed and people here won’t forget it.”
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