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May should give HS2 the Hinkley treatment and apply the brakes

“If Theresa May is sincere about putting meat on the Northern Powerhouse then she should apply the brakes to HS2,” Business Journalist Maggie Pagano writes in a comment piece published in The Times on August 30. She dubs the high-speed railway “another vanity showpiece that may cost £80 billion” and “is unlikely to bring growth to the north”.

  • We've read it in: The Times, August 30 2016