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Staffordshire villagers ‘suffered because of HS2 and should be compensated’

Residents will be ‘relieved’ to hear the line from Birmingham to Manchester has been axed, a parish council chairman has said.

The Independent UK

Congrats, Rishi: you’ve got a party so dreadful that Nigel Farage has turned you down

Liz Truss’s return, the PM’s HS2 dithering, Mr Brexit himself: no Netflix doc could truly ‘make sense’ of this Tory conference, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Braverman suggests support for immigration is a ‘luxury belief’ and claims ‘hurricane’ of mass migration is coming – as it happened

Home secretary says Tories were ‘too squeamish’ in past to deal with immigration properly from fear of being called racist

The Guardian - UK

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Sunak makes pitch to Tory right as Truss draws conference crowd

The Prime Minister seemed set to scale back HS2 amid announcements on cutting the size of the Civil Service and imposing tougher benefits conditions.

The Independent UK

HS2, Raac, potholes: the symptoms of a lack of investment are everywhere

There is no plausible path out of stagnation but to become a higher – and better – spending Britain

The Guardian - UK

Tories heading for landslide election defeat, says Britain’s top pollster

Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss

The Independent UK

‘It’s torture’: communities left in property limbo by HS2 indecision

While some living in the path of the planned railway sold up, others have stayed put, unsure when or even if they will be forced out

The Guardian - UK

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HS2 boss resigns amid speculation of further cuts

HS2 Ltd boss Mark Thurston leaves his role on Friday

Evening Standard

‘We are a political project’: how HS2’s costs have spiralled out of control

Placating Conservatives in marginal seats, inflation in construction and a maze of bureaucracy have seen the cost balloon from £32bn to £71bn

The Guardian - UK

Rish! fails to lay it on the line as local radio demands HS2 answers

Sunak refuses to speculate on his own speculation over future of Birmingham to Manchester leg

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - From HS2 to raw sewage and Nadine Dorries: how do we stop the narrative of decline?

I don’t know about you, but I’m suffering from chronic metaphor fatigue. There is nothing that goes horribly wrong, falls apart, arrives late, costs too much, delays millions and undermines our sanity that cannot be co-opted as a metaphor for Britain’s dysfunction in 2023. Everyone wants to control the narrative…

Evening Standard

Tory ministers are to blame for spiralling HS2 costs, says ex-rail boss

Former HS2 chairman fires back at ‘short sighted’ ministers and says axing northern leg would be ‘scandalous’

The Independent UK

Sunak says he will ‘probably be driving’ to Manchester for Tory party conference

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has often received criticism from his political opponents for travelling across the country by private jet or helicopter.

The Independent UK

Are HS2 bosses really ‘kids with the golden credit card’?

With reported alarm about salaries and spending, we look at what senior HS2 executives earn

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Who gains from Rishi’s ‘long-term’ thinking? Not the planet, not the north … not even him

‘Let Rishi be Rishi’, is the new Tory catchphrase. So far, that seems to be code for ‘let Britain be rubbish’ – and Suella Braverman is circling, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Independent UK

Why Sunak wants to scrap HS2 – project bosses wasting millions ‘like kids with golden credit card’

PM believes ‘ballooning bill is far worse than anyone knows’

The Independent UK

HS2 says work in Buckinghamshire is bringing ‘real benefits to passengers today’

More than one mile of a branch line in Buckinghamshire between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough is being realigned.

The Guardian - UK

HS2 may end up as ‘total waste of money’, warns IFS thinktank – as it happened

Comments from Paul Johnson of Institute of Fiscal Studies come as Downing Street hints at delay to work on second phase of rail link

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Evening Standard

OPINION - They make a wasteland and they call it progress on HS2

If you have occasion to take the Elizabeth line from one of the Ealing stations you will soon pass a large area of London that might come as something of a surprise to you. Old Oak Common is slowly being turned into what the Government likes to call “a new…

The Guardian - UK

If only Ed had the balls to cut the podcast bantz and take George Osborne to task

Despite his appalling legacy, the ex-chancellor appears to have a lot of unquestioning journalist pals

The Guardian - UK

Frustration and failure as HS2 threatens to derail

Letters: Alex Ramage, John Dunn and Mark Sullivan respond to Larry Elliott’s call to scrap the high-speed rail project

Evening Standard

HS2 will bury two Tunnel Boring Machines at Old Oak Common

The two boring machines will be blessed in a ceremony using a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnelling

Evening Standard

Old Oak Common HS2 station awarded outstanding rating for environmental design

Old Oak Common, which is under construction, was given the highest possible rating under an international scheme

The Independent UK

HS2 station awarded outstanding rating for environmental design

Old Oak Common, which is under construction, was given the highest possible rating under an international scheme.

The Independent UK

HS2 rated ‘unachievable’ by major projects body

A red rating, in an Infrastructure and Projects Authority report, states: ‘Successful delivery of the project appears to be unachievable.’

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