PM remains tight-lipped about rail project’s future and says his focus is on potholes and local buses
Rishi Sunak has refused a dozen times to provide clarity over HS2’s future, but denied that scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg would be a betrayal of the north of England.
Despite two weeks of uncertainty over the remainder of the project, the prime minister remained tight-lipped on whether HS2 would be pared back in a series of BBC local radio interviews spanning stations from Shropshire to Teesside.