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    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak to tout pro-car agenda in Tory conference pitch to voters

      UK prime minister draws up ‘plan for motorists’ to try and close opposition Labour party’s polling lead

      Rishi Sunak fills up a car with petrol
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      HS2
      Greater Manchester mayor proposes compromise on HS2 rail line

      Burnham says northern leg could be delayed if government commits to east-west route

      Trains at Manchester Piccadilly station
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      High-speed trains and the crashing of Britain’s credibility

      Dropping a chunk of HS2 would undermine the country as a place to do business

      An artist’s impression of an HS2 train. HS2 is not just a solution on passenger capacity but has become vital to Britain’s net zero goals
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      HS2
      Sunak faces backlash over potential axing of HS2 northern leg

      Tory and Labour politicians, and business groups, criticise reports that flagship rail project will be cut back

      People walk past HS2 hoardings in
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      HS2
      HS2 costs set to jump as inflation undermines rail project’s future

      Price tag set to rise to a figure closer to £91bn, according to calculations by the Financial Times

      Montage of artist’s impression of an HS2 train with £50 notes and a map of the route in the background Undated artist impression handout  issued by HS2 of a early visualisation of an HS2 train. Designs of HS2’s 225mph trains have been recognised for their environmental credentials, according to the company building the high-speed railway. PA Photo. Issue date: Sunday September 3, 2023. HS2 Ltd said its trains are the first in the world to achieve the British Standard Institute’s PAS 2080 global accreditation. See PA story RAIL HS2. Photo credit should read: HS2/PA Wire
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      HS2
      Labour casts fresh doubts over HS2 route north of Birmingham

      UK opposition party’s caution comes after Tory government refuses to commit to northern section of project

      A woman walks past HS2 hoardings
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      UK infrastructure
      HS2 route north of Birmingham in doubt as Sunak and Hunt explore more cost-cuts

      Downing Street, Treasury and transport department refuse to commit to building high-speed line to Manchester

      An aerial view of the Birmingham High Speed Rail 2 station construction site at Curzon Street in Birmingham, England
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      HS2
      Latest delays to HS2 forecast to add £366mn to soaring final bill

      Ministers’ decision to push back section of high-speed rail link will drive up costs, according to government estimates

      Promotional hoardings surround an HS2 construction site in London
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Britain’s elusive high-speed rail dream

      Despite the delays and spiralling costs, the UK still needs HS2

      The ongoing HS2 vent shaft works at Old Amersham in Amersham, England
    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      HS2 delay will increase costs, warns UK spending watchdog

      Rail line’s price tag has soared from £33bn a decade ago to as much as £100bn

      A construction worker walks past an HS2 billboard
    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Expect to see more Darling-style measures in Hunt’s Budget

      A squeeze on capital spending is the easiest — and perhaps only — kind of cut the chancellor can deliver politically now

      Alistair Darling pictured in 2014
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      HS2 rail project delayed by 2 years to save costs

      Road schemes postponed as ministers seek to offset impact of inflation on capital budgets

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      HS2 faces more delays and cuts as UK government seeks to rein in costs

      Ministers explore options for high-speed rail line which is country’s biggest infrastructure project

      The construction site as work continues on the HS2 mainline station at Curzon Street in Birmingham, UK
    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      UK infrastructure
      Hunt insists HS2 rail line will terminate in central London

      Chancellor rejects reports that project will finish on outskirts of capital to save money

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      UK infrastructure
      Sunak reverses Truss’s promise to build northern rail scheme in full

      East-west high-speed line pared again but HS2 chief confident north-south project will not be cut back

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Business attacks ‘hugely short-sighted’ HS2 plans

      Executives call on UK government to rethink decision against building Manchester station underground

      HS2 trains in a station
    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      UK infrastructure
      HS2 protests set to cost high-speed UK rail line up to £200mn

      Project heads to seek injunctions to control demos along entire length of route, MPs told

      A demonstration against the HS2 line’s plan to clear woodland  at Swynnerton in Staffordshire, England
    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      Financial Reporting Council
      Head of UK audit regulator in frame to chair HS2

      Sir Jon Thompson’s departure would create fresh upheaval at audit watchdog say executives

      Sir Jon Thompson of the FRC
    • Saturday, 5 February, 2022
      News in-depth
      HS2 rail dig opens up treasure trove of Britain’s trading past

      Project has created an archaeological trench along the 140-mile route between London and Birmingham

      Rachel Wood, lead archaeologist, with a female Roman statue
    • Sunday, 9 January, 2022
      Parag Khanna
      Britain needs immigrants if it is to survive the climate storm

      Ministers must develop a grand strategy for green energy, resilient transport and smart immigration

    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Can we make our children sell the family home after we die?

      We are worried that they will disagree over what to do with it

    • Saturday, 20 November, 2021
      UK politics
      Johnson will U-turn on scaling back HS2, Osborne predicts

      Former UK chancellor says pressure will mount on PM to change course ahead of election

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Jennifer Williams
      The UK’s new rail plan for the north is beyond satire

      The government is trumpeting yet another betrayal as a once-in-a-century revolution

      A Great Northern train at Bradford interchange station. A person sits on a bench on the platform. Bradford, the country’s seventh biggest city and arguably the worst connected, has been bypassed by the new plans
    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Lex
      HS2: slow train to Bradford wrecks the economic case Premium content

      Only by adding the full ‘Y’ network can you get to a benefit-to-cost ratio higher than 1.5:1

      A view along a stretch of the HS2 tunnel beneath the Chilterns in West Hyde, England
    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      UK Budget
      Infrastructure package criticised for focus on big-ticket projects

      Capital spending to increase but there are worries local UK schemes will remain underfunded

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