HS2 is not a useless railway, merely the stupidest | Simon Jenkins

The election was in no way a massive vote of confidence for Cameron’s vanity high-speed project. It’s time for the Tories to admit their mistake

The transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, yesterday called the election a “massive vote of confidence” in his controversial HS2 railway. It had conclusively “won the argument” for the line. Does that apply to every government policy, however silly?

HS2 is not a useless railway, merely the stupidest. In 2010 David Cameron backed it unthinkingly, as a...