Reacting to news that Ministers want to use emergency
powers to block a report on HS2 that may find the project to be in danger of
failing, UKIP Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall described the episode as an example of
"shoddy politics"."The Project Assessment Review should be published, and it should be published now."The fact that we have Cabinet Ministers seeking to block this report on HS2 demonstrates the cloak and danger approach the government is taking to this whole project and transparency in general.
"Rather than
being open, frank and honest about the many potential difficulties that HS2 is
going to face, the government are seeking to bury that bad news. It is shoddy
politics."