24 hours news access onlyRishi Sunak has denied his failure to announce a decision on the future of the HS2 rail project is making the UK a "laughing stock" as critics have warned.The Prime Minister told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: "I'd completely reject that."I speak to business leaders all the time. I've just been around the world, I've recently been in Japan, in America, in Europe, we're attracting billions of pounds of investment into this country, creating jobs everywhere."That'

24 hours news access onlyRishi Sunak has denied his failure to announce a decision on the future of the HS2 rail project is making the UK a "laughing stock" as critics have warned.The Prime Minister told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: "I'd completely reject that."I speak to business leaders all the time. I've just been around the world, I've recently been in Japan, in America, in Europe, we're attracting billions of pounds of investment into this country, creating jobs everywhere."That's what I hear from business leaders around the world, they're excited about the opportunity that investing in Britain offers."