This is a final chance to scrap HS2. What the north really needs is ‘HS3’ | Simon Jenkins

David Cameron’s vanity rail project should be ditched in the upcoming review. It’s commuter journeys that need investment

Britain’s great vanity project is hanging by a thread. Reports that the treasury secretary, Liz Truss, has made HS2 a candidate for the autumn’s public spending review have rung alarm bells across Whitehall. The railway was previously thought a done deal; but last month, ministers quietly postponed the HS2 company’s “authority to proceed” with construction contracts by six...