Rishi Sunak is set to call an emergency Cabinet meeting on Tuesday at the Conservative Party Conference to discuss the future of HS2
expected to announce plans to ditch phase 2 of the line from Birmingham to ManchesterWork is under way on the first phase, which includes stations at London Euston, Old Oak Common in west London, Birmingham Interchange and Birmingham Curzon Street.
If the Manchester phase of HS2 is scrapped, the high speed rail line will likely terminate in Birmingham. “We shouldn’t be rushed into things like that. What people would expect from me is to take the time to go over it properly and make sure we make the right long-term decisions for the country.”said it would be a “great tragedy” if it was cancelled, and that other investment in northern rail infrastructure was “not a substitute” for the high-speed project.
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