Jeremy Hunt’s HS2 comments from 2020 come back to haunt him
The chancellor said no HS2 would mean "no ambition for our country" in a tweet sent shortly after a Boris Johnson speech in 2020.
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."
Ms Braverman also faced heckles during her speech from Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff, who took umbrage with her allusion to the “poison” of “gender ideology”.
“Politicians spent more time campaigning for change than actually delivering it."
The possibility of leaving the convention was being aired as ministers struggle to meet their promise to ‘stop the boats’.
Flying on private jets, handing tax breaks to the super rich and being married into a billionaire family will do that to you...
The Prime Minister was addressing the Westminster correspondents’ dinner in central London.
The Prime Minister is reportedly considering axing plans for the HS2 high-speed rail link to run from Birmingham to Manchester amid soaring costs.
From fracking to proportional representation, Lucas has ploughed an extensive political furrow.
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