Speculation is mounting the government could delay or scrap the second leg of the line to Manchester.
Mr Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt met earlier this month to discuss the much-delayed project, whose costs have ballooned since the first estimates were produced over a decade ago.It was originally then meant to run to Manchester and Leeds. However, the leg to Leeds wasSpeculation has also mounted that the leg to Manchester could now be delayed, or scrapped altogether.
However this was in 2019 prices, so it does not account for the spike in costs for materials and wages, for example, since the Covid pandemic. Adding that most journeys across the North West were made by car, he said repairing potholes on the roads was "priority number one that people raise with me".
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