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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jon Stone

Boss of HS2 building firm savages Rishi Sunak over scrapping new London station

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The boss of the firm building HS2‘s new London station has delivered an excoriating attack on Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt amid concerns the project could be abandoned.

Mark Reynolds, chief executive of the Mace Group, said that the government’s plan to end the line at Old Oak Common – in west London – means it would take commuters longer to travel the roughly five further miles to central London than the previous 114 miles from Birmingham.

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