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Nicholas Cecil,Jitendra Joshi and Rachael Burford

David Cameron slams Rishi Sunak for scrapping HS2 Northern leg in rare intervention

Rishi Sunak declared on Wednesday “it is time for a change” in Britain with landmark education, health and transport reforms which he hopes will put him on track to pull off a general election victory against the odds.

The Prime Minister unveiled three major blueprints to replace A-levels with a new broader Advanced British Standard, to ban smoking and to plough tens of billions more into levelling-up, funded by controversially axing the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 high-speed rail line.

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