To be blunt Mr Hunt, HS2 is way off track

CAN SOMEBODY please tell me what the point is to the HS2 project? It was supposed to be an example of a modern country using technology to speed up travel between our major cities and level up some of the inequalities between North and South.

But instead what we have, as is often the case when we try to build major pieces of infrastructure, is a diabolical cock-up that will cost twice the price it was supposed to and end up only doing half the job.

Think the Scottish Parliament building, Crossrail or the Hinkley C power station, and why should we be surprised that a train track that was supposed to cost £55billion to go from London to Leeds will now cost 72billion to 98billion and stop at Manchester.