Rishi Sunak is moving to cutHS2 despite being warned in a confidential government-ordered study that doing so will cause chaos for passengers, The Independent can reveal.
The leaked paper – drawn up ahead of HS2 talks between the prime minister and his chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, and marked “Official-Sensitive” – was ordered this year by the Department for Transport as it sought to explore cost-saving measures after the budget to rebuild Euston, at the line’s southern end, ballooned by £2.2bn.
