HS2 and the Tory Leadership Campaign
As you might expect, HS2 is not the biggest issue for debate at the moment in the ongoing campaign...
Tag: Patrick McLoughlin
Looking above the bottom line
Originally published here. When the Command Paper setting out the Government’s plans to accelerate the delivery of the section...
Government mount desperate bid to cut HS2 costs.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has been called in to HS2 to mount an investigation into whether it is...
Lincs audience applaud suggestion to cancel HS2 to help regional railways
Responding to a question about rail fares, the Stamford, Lincolnshire, audience overwhelmingly applaud the suggestion that HS2 should be cancelled with the billions saved being used to help regional railways instead.
Question Time, BBC1 28th January 2016.
Some oral answers on HS2
Yesterday, during Transport Question, HS2 and high speed rail came up several times. Here are some of the things...
HS2 four years and counting…the cost
Originally published on 51M to mark the fourth anniversary of the announcement of the decision to build HS2. The Secretary of...
Once more the cost of HS2 speeds up
From 51M: Ever since HS2 was given the go ahead in January, 2012 those challenging the project have claimed...
Official HS2 costs have gone up, but who knows where to.
Documents seen by the Independent on Sunday have confirmed an increase in the cost of Phase 1 of HS2....
Burnham, Cooper and Corbyns’ reluctance to waste money has McLoughlin running scared.
Whilst we keep being told there is a massed hoard of Conservative ‘entryists’ suddenly supporting the Labour Party for...
Mr McLoughlin and the West Coast Main Line
This post was first published by 51m Patrick McLoughlin was interviewed on BBC News yesterday morning. One of his...