With uncertainty growing that the High Speed Link will ever reach Manchester, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is the latest Government minister to blow cold on its future
In an interview with LBC yesterday the Chancellor said that the costs of the project were out of control
Hunt told the programme:
”You would expect me as chancellor to be having discussions but let me say to you now, we haven’t made any decisions on this. We are looking at all the options. But we do need to find a way of delivering infrastructure projects that doesn’t cost taxpayers billions and billions of pounds.”
His comments follow the Prime Minister’s response to a question at his press conference on Wednesday that he would not speculate on the rail line’s future after being asked whether HS2 could form part of the changes that he would be announcing over the next few months
Reports earlier this month suggested that Sunak and his Chancellor were preparing to scrap the Northern end of the line and the scheme to finish the line at Euston
