Rishi Sunak is under mounting pressure from senior Conservatives in the north of England over HS2, as both his former levelling up minister and the former Tory chairperson joined calls for the northern leg to be built in full.
Dehenna Davison and Jake Berry called for the PM to “crack on” with the Birmingham to Manchester route after The Independent revealed that Mr Sunak and his chancellor Jeremy Hunt were in talks to axe phase 2.
