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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Sophie Huskisson

HS2 route to be delayed by TWO years in Tory betrayal of northern voters

Dithering Tory ministers have been accused of failing taxpayers after they announced the HS2 rail line will be delayed.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the section of track between Birmingham and Crewe will be built two years later than planned.

He blamed rising costs for the delay, but Labour slammed the Tories’ “chronic indecision” that will “cost taxpayers and the North”.

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