I don't think the Northern Mayors are in any mood to compromise. What the Northern Mayors wanted was HS2 and NPR. Now they are being offered neither. I don't see where the space for agreeme… (View Post)

From what I can see it's been clawed back. It looks to me like they're spending much less on transport than was previously committed. (View Post)

"You can't have both" - so instead of £96bn for the Midlands and North, £36bn gets spread across the whole country. Wonder where the bulk of that will be spent? (View Post)

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)