Yes, there was £96bn earmarked in the IRP for NPR and HS2. This is just the former without the latter. Except that the former will be missing a big section where it had to run on HS2 rails between Ma… (View Post)

Again, I have to marvel at - even if they'd decided it was the course of action they wanted to take, they didn't HAVE to announce abandoning HS2 to Manchester, at the party conference, in M… (View Post)

Also, the casual reader (like me) wouldn't have known who Akshata Murty was but clearly knows who Mrs. Sunak is. (View Post)

FPT: @Richard_Tyndall - while I'm an enthusiastic backer of HS2, if you offered the Midlands and North £100 billion (I don't know if you picked that number out of thin air, but the cost env… (View Post)

A pedant who has just checked the OS map notes: actually, the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire above Winscar reservoir at the top of the Don appears to be the watershed between the rivers Do… (View Post)