Video of Rishi Sunak announcing the axing of the HS2 Manchester leg was filmed in No 10 before he travelled to conference
Good morning. Westminster is still digesting the repercussions from Rishi Sunak’s conference speech yesterday, although Sunak himself will have other things on his mind; he’s attending the European Political Community summit in Spain.
The speech has had an enthusiastic reception has had an enthusiastic reception in the Tory papers, but not elsewhere, and it is still not clear whether or not Sunak will garner any electoral credit for the decision to scrap the Manchester leg of HS2. One PR aspect of the announcement is getting attention today, because Mark Harper, the transport secretary, has had to explain why No 10 kept telling us all that no decision about HS2 had been taken when Sunak had already recorded a video announcing it.
