In These Cash-Strapped Days, This Would Be A Very Poor Call.

Starmer to reconsider building scrapped HS2 route.

Labour-commissioned report calls for revival of rail network north of Birmingham

Christopher Jasper, TRANSPORT INDUSTRY EDITOR. DT.

Christopher Jasper

22 August 2024 •

Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the cancellation of HS2's northern leg last year CREDIT: Jim Dyson/Getty Images Europe

Sir Keir Starmer is to consider reviving the scrapped High Speed Two (HS2) rail routes north of Birmingham after a Labour-commissioned study recommended a sweeping programme of infrastructure spending...