Boris Johnson has been slammed after claiming the Government's cut-price rail plan will deliver for the North.
The downgraded Northern Powerhouse Rail plan, adopted by Grant Shapps last year, cut the requested investment by roughly half and replaced much of the new track originally requested with upgrades to existing routes.
Instead of a 40-mile new high speed line all the way from Manchester to Leeds for example, a new line is proposed from Warrington to Marsden in Yorkshire, where it will be tacked onto an upgraded.
