All news on the topic: HS2

The PM will unveil plans for a roads spending bonanza at Conservative Party conference as he faces accusations he's doing the dirty on the North by cancelling HS2 to Manchester

The Prime Minister was repeatedly tackled about fears he plans to axe the high-speed line to Manchester, as he carried out a series of local radio interviews from his No10 bunker

Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said it was 'concerning' if Rishi Sunak was shocked at the scale of spending when he was responsible for overseeing HS2 as Chancellor

Five Labour leaders from across the North and London urged Rishi Sunak not to scale back the high-speed line amid reports the Birmingham to Manchester leg faces the axe

Greater Manchester night time economy adviser Sacha Lord says the PM is failing to plan for the future by threatening to scrap the HS2 link between Birmingham and Manchester

The Prime Minister was quizzed about plans for the high speed railway, which have already been scaled back and could face another overhaul in a bid to save cash

Rishi Sunak only cares about the next General Election - this anti-change Premier trashing our country is creating problems with a strategy lacking coherence or intellectual substance

The northern leg of the high speed line from Birmingham to Manchester has been thrown into doubt - with the PM and Chancellor expected to discuss the fate of the route this week

London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned scrapping the HS2 link to Euston station would mean some journeys on “high speed” services would take longer to get to the centre of the Capital than regular trains

Buses Minister Richard Holden was hauled before MPs after days of uncertainty over whether Rishi Sunak plans to axe the northern leg of the high speed rail line

Things might get even worse for Rishi Sunak and the Tories before the next election with the HS2 fiasco the latest sign of their cuts, incompetence and failure, writes Kevin Maguire

Since it was announced in 2009, HS2 has been rerouted many times and more than doubled in cost from the £33billion - a shambles and another slap in the face for the north.

The Government has already axed the proposed HS2 leg from Birmingham to Leeds, and now it is refusing to commit to extending the route to Manchester

The controversial scheme has fallen into turmoil yet again after No10 failed to quash speculation the Rishi Sunak is to axe the stretch from Birmingham to Manchester

Henri Murison, Chief Executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, writes for the Mirror that the move would be a 'betrayal that the Conservative Party may come to regret'

Downing Street refused to guarantee the beleaguered HS2 high-speed railway line would run to Manchester as originally promised amid spiralling costs and delays

HS2 railway bosses want permission to build a "sizeable" ventilation shaft in a flood zone in West Didsbury, in Manchester, leaving residents "very, very worried"

The HS2 project is mired in controversy, with costs spiralling and the high-speed rail link not scheduled to open until 2029 at the earliest as once-loved homes still sit abandoned

HS2 is spending £1million with Fujitsu, which was mired in controversy after it which built a faulty IT system that ruined the lives of hundreds of Post Office workers

Emergency services raced to the site at Marston Green in East Birmingham yesterday and found a man in his 70s in a 'serious' condition' - he was airlifted to hospital where he sadly died

Tory MP Bim Afolami struggled to get his words out as the Question Time panel debated whether HS2 is worth the money. Ministers have announced part of the high speed railway will be delayed by at least two years

A leaked document produced by Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh in the Commons laid bare the potential impact of the controversial two-year delay to a key section of the high speed railway

Transport Secretary Mark Harper has said the Government will delay building the Birmingham to Crewe leg of HS2 by two years. Labour said: 'The North is yet again being asked to pay the price for staggering Conservative failure'

Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh told the Tories to 'Get on with it, stop wasting taxpayers’ money as she renewed the party's promise to construct the track's eastern leg

Mark Thurston said the impact of inflation on the HS2 high-speed rail project over the past year has been ‘significant’ as bosses and the Government consider delaying to curb costs