Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has again refused to say if the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2 will be axed.
Asked by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg if the high-speed line would reach Manchester, he said: “We’re getting on with delivering [the project], I’m not going to comment on this speculation.”
Rising costs have led to growing doubts over this second leg of HS2.
Rising costs have led to growing doubts over this second leg of HS2.
HS2 is seen as key to the government’s pledge to “level up” the country. Labour and some Tory MPs have warned against scaling it back.
On Saturday, former PM Theresa May became the latest Conservative voice to warn against downgrading the project.
Andy Street, the Tory mayor of the West Midlands, has also criticised the idea, while London mayor Sadiq Khan warned it could make the UK a “laughing stock”.
But Mr Sunak said he “completely” rejected the criticism, telling Kuenssberg that the government was “absolutely committed to levelling up across this country”.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has again refused to say if the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2 will be axed.
Rising costs have led to growing doubts over this second leg of HS2.
Asked by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg if the high-speed line would reach Manchester, he said: “We’re getting on with delivering [the project], I’m not going to comment on this speculation.”
HS2 is seen as key to the government’s pledge to “level up” the country. Labour and some Tory MPs have warned against scaling it back.
Rising costs have led to growing doubts over this second leg of HS2.
Rising costs have led to growing doubts over this second leg of HS2.
HS2 is seen as key to the government’s pledge to “level up” the country. Labour and some Tory MPs have warned against scaling it back.
On Saturday, former PM Theresa May became the latest Conservative voice to warn against downgrading the project.
Andy Street, the Tory mayor of the West Midlands, has also criticised the idea, while London mayor Sadiq Khan warned it could make the UK a “laughing stock”.
But Mr Sunak said he “completely” rejected the criticism, telling Kuenssberg that the government was “absolutely committed to levelling up across this country”.
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