The Prime Minister used his speech at the Tory party conference to confirm the northern leg of HS2 would be scrapped, claiming that the 'facts have changed'
Sunak tries to lay a spending trap for Labour with raft of expensive long-term policy plansThe Prime Minister used his speech at the Tory party conference to confirm the northern leg of HS2 would be scrapped, claiming that the ‘facts have changed’
That puts the country’s economy ahead of both Germany and France during the same period, but still behind Italy , Canada , Japan and the US .has had a negative impact on the UK economy. It estimates that Brexit has cost the UK 2-3 per cent GDP, with investment perhaps 10 per cent lower than it would otherwise have been.
He promised to use the £36 billion of savings from scrapping the project to fund other transport schemes across the country.was originally slated to cost £37.5bn. Four years later, the government upped the cost to £42.6bn. In 2015 it was increased again, to a budget of £55.7bn. In March 2010, England and Wales had 143,734 police officers, compared to a population of about 55.7 million.
More than 25,000 people have been detected crossing the English Channel in small boats so far in 2023, the statistics show. The UK is almost halfway to net zero, having cut emissions by 46 per cent between 1990 and last year.
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