Mayor hits back at 'dangerous' calls to sink HS2

CALLS to scrap the HS2 project have been branded 'reckless' by the mayor of the West Midlands.

- GURDIP THANDI

Richard Parker came out fighting for the high-speed railway scheme in response to Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice branding it "wasteful" and urging Chancellor Rachel Reeves to abandon it.

Mr Tice has previously said Reform would scrap it if they came to power and, in a pre-budget social media clip this week, he labelled it the 'train to nowhere.

But Mr Parker, inset, said the region would suffer if the project was jettisoned at this late stage of its development.