Every week brings a fresh HS2 scandal. It’s time to shut it down – all of it | Simon Jenkins

In an astonishing white paper, Rishi Sunak rips into the project he once lavishly funded. But he doesn’t go far enough

The most astonishing government document I have ever read sits on my desk. It is called Network North: Transforming British Transport and it purports to explain why Rishi Sunak cancelled half the HS2 project last month. In fact, it does not explain anything. It is an angry rant, tearing the entire HS2 project to bits: ridiculing, smashing and intellectually humiliating it.

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