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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

'Years of delay' before new HS2 station at Euston gets off ground, warns public spending watchdog

The shambles caused by the former Tory government’s decision to halt construction of the HS2 station at Euston has been laid bare by the UK’s public spending watchdog.

A report published on Tuesday (July 23) catalogued the negative outcomes from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision in October 2023 to pause work on what would have been the high-speed line’s London terminus in a bid to ease cash-flow problems with the project.

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