Who started gunning for Phase 2 of HS2 ? In October 2018, Jacob Rees-Mogg told New Civil Engineer that the money committed to the northern legs of HS2 would be better spent elsewhere. Then foreign secretary Boris Johnson said that other northern transport projects should take precedence over HS2 phase 2.
Boris Johnson's manifesto for the December 2019 election failed to mention HS2.
Construction officially began in September 2020, after some 'integration' of the Northern Powerhouse Rail plans. In November 2021, the integrated plan officially emerged; the eastern leg to Leeds would be chopped back to the East Midlands. April 2022 - Grant Shapps rules out an underground route through Manchester Piccadilly as 'it doesn't work out'.
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