White House spokesperson said.

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It was designed to cut journey times and expand capacity on the railways.chief executive of HS2 who was appointed last year.The eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds was axed first.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said on Wednesday that there was no route to delivering the line on schedule and within budget.He said that there was a lack of timely intervention to address known challenges which set the conditions for the systemic failure we see today.

before Rishi Sunak's government cancelled the planned Birmingham to Manchester route.

the former commissioner of Transport for London.Opposition politicians criticised Badenoch's comments and the End Fuel Poverty Coalition described them as out of touch.

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she said a Tory government would scrap the ban on new licences.Badenoch said the tax - known as Energy Profits Levy - should be scrapped before its current 2030 expiration.