Politics

Transport Secretary Mark Harper said the cost of pulling out of the agreements will ‘broadly balance out’ with money recovered from selling land.

And there’s a chance he’ll be boasting a blue rosette when the UK next goes to the polls.

The chancellor said no HS2 would mean "no ambition for our country" in a tweet sent shortly after a Boris Johnson speech in 2020.

"This doesn’t work for north-to-south, it doesn’t work east-to-west, and what we’re seeing in this plan is a decade of rail replacement buses with electrification."

“Valjean steals bread to feed a starving child. How long before we are all forced to steal?”

"I cannot stop watching this. It’s one of the most peculiar things I’ve ever seen, which given the venue, is really saying something", Brendan May said.

Fox was arrested in Stockwell and taken to a south London police station on Wednesday.

Chris McEleny, the general secretary of the Alba Party, has complained to Police Scotland officers that the PM’s remarks could be a contempt of court.

Manchester United and several northern businesses have written to Rishi Sunak urging him to not cancel the northern leg of HS2.