Reports yesterday suggested Sir Keir Starmer is planning to re-introduce ‘phase 2a’ of the high speed railway, which was cancelled by Rishi Sunak last year in Manchester. This section of the line runs from Birmingham to Crewe.
However, the LBC Radio report does not suggest HS2 would come back to Manchester. It also would not fall back to the taxpayer, instead would ‘be handed to a private sector consortium’.
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