Prime Minister Rishi Sunak refused on Tuesday to end speculation about the future of Britain's HS2 high-speed railway project, saying he was still considering whether to scrap or delay construction of the northern leg of the train line.
At his party's annual conference in Manchester, one of the destinations for the second phase of the high-speed train link, Sunak was under pressure from business leaders and organisations to make a decision and end uncertainty about whether the project would or would not go ahead.
"I know there is a lot of speculation, but I won't be forced into a premature decision because it is good for someone's TV programme. What I want to do is make the right decision for the country," he told BBC television. HS2, or High Speed 2, was originally expected to link London with cities including Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, but has already been scaled back. Rail industry leaders say that every delay means the project gets more expensive.
Scrapping the link to Manchester would reduce HS2 to a line between London and Birmingham. Work on this initial phase is already advanced and the government has already spent 2.3 billion pounds on the northern part of the trainline.
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