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Labour says Sunak should take blame for soaring HS2 costs as they happened on his ‘direct watch’ – as it happened

Labour says HS2 costs almost trebled while Sunak was chief secretary to the Treasury, chancellor and then PM

The Guardian - UK

Labour mayors urge Sunak not to scrap, delay or scale back HS2

Regional leaders express dismay at prospect of ditching high-speed rail project’s northern leg

The Guardian - UK

Five Labour mayors join forces to derail Sunak’s plan to axe HS2

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham among local leaders in talks with transport chiefs

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Five Labour mayors across UK join forces to urge Rishi Sunak to stay on track with HS2

Sadiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory

Evening Standard

Andrew Gilligan: ex-Johnson adviser said to have Sunak’s ear on HS2

Former BBC journalist who has a gift for persuasion has reportedly always been 100% opposed to rail project

The Guardian - UK

Five Labour mayors across UK join forces to urge Sunak to stay on track with HS2

Mayor of London Saqiq Khan and his four fellow Labour leaders say they have been ‘inundated’ with concerns about the Government’s trajectory.

The Independent UK

HS2: Five Labour mayors to demand PM keeps project on track

On Tuesday, Home Office minister Chris Philp said Mr Sunak was reviewing how the cost of HS2 could be ‘controlled’.

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How the Integrated Rail Plan disintegrated

Train Talk: HS2 is the very definition of how not to run a railway project – and how to destroy a dream

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak’s dithering over HS2 spurs on its critics and supporters

With Tory conference looming and talk of delaying decision to autumn statement, the row could intensify further

The Guardian - UK

Northern Research Group of Tory MPs signals it may accept delay to HS2

Chair, John Stevenson, says they could back a compromise on phase 2 if ‘Charles line’ preserved

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s Andy Burnham warns he could sue Sunak government if HS2 axed

‘We’re not going to take things lying down – they will be hearing from us,’ says Manchester mayor

The Independent UK

It’s time to consider how we can make the best of HS2

Letters: A system built purely for speed ignores the needs of the populations it’s trying to connect, says Andrew Gore. Plus letters from David Watts, Allan Whittow and Jonathan Leeming

The Guardian - UK

How much time will HS2 save? Northern leg axed by PM

HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester and Leeds has been scrapped

Evening Standard

OPINION - HS2 could transform Britain — why do we refuse to think big?

As he prepares for what may be his last party conference as Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak is working on a truly unpleasant gift for Manchester, host city to the gathering that opens on Sunday. Though ministers insist that no final decision has been taken, they have conspicuously declined to deny…

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The Independent UK

Sunak trying to ‘control’ HS2 costs after they ‘tripled’, minister says

Home Office minister Chris Philp insisted no decision has been made on whether to scrap or delay the Manchester leg of the rail project.

The Guardian - UK

From the brains behind Brexit: an HS2 for the north that doesn’t actually go there

The Conservatives have turned a promising national upgrade into an absurdity, says writer and journalist Jonn Elledge

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are reviewing how HS2 cost can be ‘controlled’, minister says

But Manchester’s Andy Burnham threatens to sue if high-speed rail doesn’t reach his city

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: Billions spent, no track built and still no trains – 14 years on, what happened to HS2?

In today’s newsletter: As the government prepares to scale down its ambitious high speed rail project again, we explore what happened

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The Independent UK

HS2 news - live: Sunak insists he’s committed to levelling up as rail backlash grows

Rishi Sunak says his government is committed to ‘spreading opportunity around the country, not just in the North but in the Midlands, in all other regions of our fantastic country’

The Independent UK

What the papers say – September 26

A variety of stories feature on the front of the UK’s newspapers on Tuesday.

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Rishi Sunak ‘alarmed’ by spiralling cost of HS2 as he faces Cabinet split

The Prime Minister has reportedly told allies he will not watch the cost continue to rise, in a sign he could be preparing to ditch the northern leg.

The Guardian - UK

Why has HS2 ended up being so expensive?

The project is shrouded in uncertainty and other countries’ railway constructions appear to be cheaper

The Guardian - UK

Sunak may seek to limit HS2 fallout with new transport projects in north

Sources suggest PM could announce new spending on bus, tram and train schemes if he decides to axe part of HS2

The Independent UK

Cabinet split over Sunak’s HS2 ‘gross act of vandalism’

Exclusive: Levelling up secretary Michael Gove and transport secretary Mark Harper ‘very unhappy’ over plan to axe northern leg – first revealed by this newspaper – as George Osborne attacks ‘economic self-harm’

The Guardian - UK

Abolishing HS2 and inheritance tax? Rish! would not speculate on speculation he started

For far too long Rishi Sunak had been held back by successive Tory governments. Time for some unspecified action

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