Sunak facing backlash as he is poised to announce scrapping HS2 to Manchester

The scaling back of the high speed rail project comes as he holds the Conservative Party conference in the northern city.

Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash from Tories, businesses and northern leaders over a chaotic announcement to save billions of pounds by scrapping the HS2 leg to Manchester.

The Times reported that after intense lobbying from within his Cabinet he will say the line will terminate in Euston, in central London, rather than the western suburb of Old Oak Common. An expanded Northern Powerhouse Rail project linking cities and cash for potholes and bus routes could be announced to sweeten the pill of curtailing the project feared to have spiralled past £100 billion.

Henri Murison, chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said backtracking on the project would be “madness”.But a package appeared to have been signed off by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Monday.Labour’s shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said Mr Sunak’s bid to relaunch his premiership was “coming off the rails” over the HS2 “fiasco”.

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