The Prime Minister insisted on Thursday that he could be trusted to deliver change for Britain after a ferocious backlash from predecessors and northern leaders against his decision to curtail HS2.
Rishi Sunak’s claims to “honesty and integrity” outlined at the Conservative conference in Manchester were called into question after it emerged that he had filmed a social media video to announce the high-speed rail decision days ago - while insisting in public that a decision was yet to come.
