HS2 would provide a slower journey between London and Birmingham than current train services if plans to slash the project are enacted, Louise Haigh has claimed.Pressing the Government about rumours of cuts to the project, the shadow transport secretary told the Commons: "Here we are yet again. 13 years of gross mismanagement and chaos coming home to roost. First they slashed Northern Powerhouse Rail, then they binned HS2 to Leeds, then they announced the line would terminate at Old Oak Common f

HS2 would provide a slower journey between London and Birmingham than current train services if plans to slash the project are enacted, Louise Haigh has claimed.Pressing the Government about rumours of cuts to the project, the shadow transport secretary told the Commons: "Here we are yet again. 13 years of gross mismanagement and chaos coming home to roost. First they slashed Northern Powerhouse Rail, then they binned HS2 to Leeds, then they announced the line would terminate at Old Oak Common for years to come, and now it looks like they are considering cutting the North of England out in its entirety."If this is true, what are we left with? The Tories' flagship levelling up project that reaches neither the North of England nor Central London. The most expensive railway track in the world that thanks to terminating in Acton will be a longer journey between Birmingham and Central London than the one passengers currently enjoy."What started out as a modern infrastructure plan left by th