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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Archie Mitchell

Scrapping HS2 would be ‘gross act of vandalism’, Osborne and Heseltine warn

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Scrapping the northern extension of HS2 would be a “gross act of vandalism”, George Osborne and Michael Heseltine have warned.

The former chancellor and former deputy prime minister have told Rishi Sunak that stopping short of Manchester would be “an act of huge economic self-harm”.

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