HS2 was heralded by the Conservative government as an integral part of its Northern Powerhouse strategy, a high-speed rail project that would bridge the North-South divide and rebalance the economy. Announcing the project in 2014, then-chancellor George Osborne declared that he wanted to create a Northern Powerhouse that would connect “not one city, but a […]
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