Fresh uncertainty for high-speed line as leaked document suggests Sunak and Hunt have met to discuss cuts to project
The HS2 high-speed rail line has been mired in fresh uncertainty as the prime minister’s spokesman refused to guarantee it would run to Manchester, after a photographed document suggested the government was looking for further cuts amid spiralling costs.
The visible details appeared to show Rishi Sunak and the chancellor Jeremy Hunt were meeting to discuss potential savings, with a total £34.1bn expenditure listed for the second phase of the railway from Birmingham to Manchester and to the East Midlands.
