"I have seen up close the scale of failure in project delivery and it's dire," she says.
Nobody would argue with that assessment. The latest estimate for the first stage of the project is a colossal £60bn to £65bn in today's money, and it's oddson that a few more billion will come at the next count. So it is reasonable for a new government, especially one contemplating reinstating the section to Crewe, albeit in slimmed-down form, to want to know what happened. Yet another independent review of HS2 - this one by James Stewart of KPMG is justified.
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