Boris Johnson has warned Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt they would be out of their “minds” to cancel the HS2 rail link to Manchester as the former PM broke cover to criticise the government’s handling of the project.
Scrapping or delaying the line would be “betraying the north of the country and the whole agenda of levelling up”, Mr Johnson said in a fierce rebuke of Downing Street plans to cut the high-speed rail line short.
