Boris Johnson urged to 'go full speed ahead' on HS2 by former Tory leadership rival Jeremy Hunt
Mr Burnham told Ridge:"Basically, HS2 has been designed as a north-south railway and when you come to the east-west bit, the Northern Powerhouse area, it doesn't work very well.
"If you ask people in the North which one would they prioritise, most people would say get east-west right.""If we can all agree that we now prioritise east-west... then I think that's something we could get behind because we could look at the prospect of an east-west railway across the north opening in the 2030s and HS2 is only planned to come here in the 2040s.
"So, there is room for a compromise here and maybe it's about taking the team who are working on HS2 north of Birmingham off that project and putting them on Northern Powerhouse Rail."The second part of the HS2 scheme to Manchester and Leeds could now be reviewed Concerns have been raised over the major infrastructure project, which having been allocated £56bn in 2015, could now cost up to £106bn, according to estimates.Last month, Whitehall's spending watchdog said
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