Rishi Sunak announces plans to scrap HS2 and promises new Network North rail plan

Rishi Sunak faces backlash from former PMs over decision to axe HS2 northern leg

The Prime Minister also found himself reported to police in Scotland over comments made about Nicola Sturgeon in his conference speech.

CPC23: Rishi Sunak Betrays the North by Axing HS2 to Manchester

Rishi Sunak's Tory conference speech has seen him officially announce the scrapping the HS2 leg to Manchester. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.…

What Rishi Sunak scrapping HS2 – and promising a new 'Network North'– means for the north of England

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed he is cancelling phase two of the long-standing high-speed rail network project, High Speed 2 (HS2). This comes two years after the government scrapped the eastern Leeds branch of the project. In a speech to the Conservative conference in Manchester, Sunak promised that “every single penny” from the £36bn he says will be saved by scrapping the Manchester leg of the rail network will, instead, be spent …

Rishi Sunak axes northern leg of HS2 in flurry of ‘radical’ decisions

Prime minister confirms high-speed rail decision and also announces education reforms and smoking curbs

Sunak plans to replace A-Levels with new qualification

The British government will introduce a single qualification "the Advanced British Standard" bringing together A-levels and T-levels, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.

'Rubbish!' Leeds locals hit out at Sunak's decision to scrap northern leg of HS2

Leeds residents have reacted to the decision from Rishi Sunak to scrap the northern leg of the HS2 railway project, which would have added transport connections between Manchester and Leeds.In his keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, the Prime Minister confirmed that it will be scrapped, following speculation and uproar from the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.Sunak said the HS2 project is the "ultimate ex…