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We ARE committed to HS2 insists Chancellor

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June 23, 2025

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has assured Brummies and would-be investors that her Government was committed to getting HS2 back on track.

- JANE HAYNES Politics & People Editor

We ARE committed to HS2 insists Chancellor

She spoke after the rail project was branded an "appalling mess" and it was announced there might not be any trains running on the line between Birmingham and the edge of London for another decade.

The startling reality check was unveiled last Wednesday as two damning reports were published into the future of HS2.

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander described the rail project and its management as "no less than a litany of failure"

She told the House of Commons that "billions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been wasted by constant scope changes, ineffective contracts and bad management".

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