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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Northern Powerhouse Rail scaled back AGAIN as Tory says 'not much point' in plan

Plans for a high speed railway linking major northern cities have been ripped up again amid vicious spending cuts.

Proposals to build in full Northern Powerhouse Rail, also called High Speed 3, have been scrapped just weeks after they were restored.

The project was ditched as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt bid to plug an estimated £50billion black hole in public coffers.

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