Gary Gibbon
HS2 vote: ‘Come if you want to’
Tories and Lib Dems are running a three line whip on the HS2 vote – but it’s a “come if you want to vote for it, do feel free to spend half term with the family if you don’t” three line whip.
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Plans to scrap HS2 ‘will permanently reduce the size of the northern economy,’ says Andy Burnham
We spoke to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, and began by asking him how much instability was being caused by the government’s position on HS2.
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‘It’s a way of keeping the north down’: Manchester commuters react to HS2 plans
While the future of the rail project designed to speed up links to their city is being discussed inside the conference hall, our North of England correspondent, Clare Fallon has been talking to people here in Manchester about their reaction to reports it’s been shelved.
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Cameron and Osborne give the green light to develop ‘HS3’
The government backs proposals for a high speed rail link across some of the biggest cities in the north of England.
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Speed up HS2 and scrap link to channel tunnel – Higgins
The northern section of the £50bn high-speed rail line should be completed faster and the link with HS1 scrapped, according to HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins.
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HS2 will be ‘brought in faster, earlier and cheaper’
A new report on the HS2 rail link to cut train times between London and Birmingham will confirm it will be fast-tracked and cheaper – although won’t be rubber-stamped before the 2015 general election.
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‘Speed up HS2 in the north’, says Higgins report
Sir David Higgins, the boss of the HS2 high-speed rail project, proposes a speeding up of the building of the northern, phase two, section of the £50bn project, which is currently set to open in 2033.
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Lord Heseltine on HS2 and social mobility
Lord Heseltine tells Jon Snow the HS2 rail project will not turn Britain’s cities into commuter hubs for London, and denies that Britain is dominated by a privately educated, middle-class elite.
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Faisal Islam
Ten reasons why Labour are bluffing on HS2
Your correspondent is making a strong call: HS2 is a done deal, it will sail through parliament, and if anything will be fast-tracked
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FactCheck: is HS2 value for money?
This is the fifth time the government has attempted to make the economic case for the railway. Has it succeeded?
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Faisal Islam
The numbers are good – but HS2 was always a political project
The figures in today’s Treasury benefit cost ratio of HS2 are both positive and spuriously exact. But don’t be fooled – this is a political rather than an economic project.
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How UK has fallen behind at high-speed rail
The UK may have been the first to develop trains that travelled at high speeds – but since then we have fallen steeply behind our global peers.
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Gary Gibbon
HS2, transport armageddon and playing chicken
The weather chaos on roads and rail today is as nothing, the government is warning, to the travel network armageddon that threatens if HS2 is not built.
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Revealed: the towns and cities set to lose millions over HS2
Bristol, Cambridge and Aberdeen are among 50 areas that could lose millions as a result of the HS2, according to government research released for the first time.
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Gary Gibbon
Balls, creches and capital spending
Parents welcome the pledge by Ed Balls for more state funded childcare – but can Labour also pass the ‘economic credibility test’?
