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    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Britain’s elusive high-speed rail dream

      Despite the delays and spiralling costs, the UK still needs HS2

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      HS2 delay will increase costs, warns UK spending watchdog

      Rail line’s price tag has soared from £33bn a decade ago to as much as £100bn

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Expect to see more Darling-style measures in Hunt’s Budget

      A squeeze on capital spending is the easiest — and perhaps only — kind of cut the chancellor can deliver politically now

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      HS2 rail project delayed by 2 years to save costs

      Road schemes postponed as ministers seek to offset impact of inflation on capital budgets

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      HS2 faces more delays and cuts as UK government seeks to rein in costs

      Ministers explore options for high-speed rail line which is country’s biggest infrastructure project

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      UK infrastructure
      Hunt insists HS2 rail line will terminate in central London

      Chancellor rejects reports that project will finish on outskirts of capital to save money

    • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
      UK infrastructure
      Sunak reverses Truss’s promise to build northern rail scheme in full

      East-west high-speed line pared again but HS2 chief confident north-south project will not be cut back

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Business attacks ‘hugely short-sighted’ HS2 plans

      Executives call on UK government to rethink decision against building Manchester station underground

    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      UK infrastructure
      HS2 protests set to cost high-speed UK rail line up to £200mn

      Project heads to seek injunctions to control demos along entire length of route, MPs told

    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      Financial Reporting Council
      Head of UK audit regulator in frame to chair HS2

      Sir Jon Thompson’s departure would create fresh upheaval at audit watchdog say executives

    • Saturday, 5 February, 2022
      News in-depth
      HS2 rail dig opens up treasure trove of Britain’s trading past

      Project has created an archaeological trench along the 140-mile route between London and Birmingham

    • Sunday, 9 January, 2022
      Parag Khanna
      Britain needs immigrants if it is to survive the climate storm

      Ministers must develop a grand strategy for green energy, resilient transport and smart immigration

    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
      Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
      Can we make our children sell the family home after we die?

      We are worried that they will disagree over what to do with it

    • Saturday, 20 November, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Johnson will U-turn on scaling back HS2, Osborne predicts

      Former UK chancellor says pressure will mount on PM to change course ahead of election

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Jennifer Williams
      The UK’s new rail plan for the north is beyond satire

      The government is trumpeting yet another betrayal as a once-in-a-century revolution

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Lex
      HS2: slow train to Bradford wrecks the economic case Premium content

      Only by adding the full ‘Y’ network can you get to a benefit-to-cost ratio higher than 1.5:1

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      UK Budget
      Infrastructure package criticised for focus on big-ticket projects

      Capital spending to increase but there are worries local UK schemes will remain underfunded

    • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
      InterviewUK infrastructure
      Grant Shapps signals major rethink of HS2 rail line

      Transport secretary says ministers cannot ‘blindly follow’ blueprint and endorses newer rail schemes

    • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
      Cost of UK’s HS2 railway line has ‘no clear end in sight’, MPs warn

      Public accounts committee ‘increasingly alarmed’ by Covid cost pressures, slow progress at Euston and ‘lack of clarity’

    • Wednesday, 25 August, 2021
      News in-depthHS2
      UK ministers set to cut back HS2 eastern route

      Move expected after cost of high-speed rail line soars amid ballooning public spending

    • Monday, 9 August, 2021
      Tory MPs join Labour mayors in bid to save HS2 eastern route

      Red wall Conservatives fear PM will be breaking his pledge to ‘level up’ if route is axed

    • Monday, 9 August, 2021
      Kier Group PLC
      Kier boss admits HS2 rail contracts saved company from collapse

      Government supplier was ‘absolute mess’ but is rebuilding balance sheet, says Andrew Davies

    • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
      News in-depthUK government spending
      Conservatives’ ideological splits exposed by big spending rail projects

      ‘Red Wall’ Tories see HS2 and Northern Powerhouse as key to delivering 2019 election promises

    • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
      HS2
      US contractor seeking £100m from HS2 over lost tender

      Bechtel says Balfour Beatty-led consortium was awarded £1.3bn contract despite ‘lacking understanding of requirements’

    • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
      HS2
      HS2 spur to Leeds should be delayed, infrastructure commission advises

      Advisory body says routes between cities in the north and midlands should be prioritised

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