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The Full English with Alexander Brown - Episode 90 - The Road to Nowhere

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00:00 [Music]

00:27 Hello and welcome to Full English, show that you buy politics with not, not knowing

00:32 what's happening with HS2. The same can possibly said for the government

00:36 despite them being in total control of it, which I am not. Let's get into it.

00:42 This week Rishi Sunak repeatedly refused to say whether the HS2 high speed rail

00:48 line will run to Manchester and when pushed for a yes or no answer started

00:52 talking about potholes and then how to improve roads. For those of you at home

00:56 that's just a cowardly no. Asked again the Prime Minister said he wasn't going

01:01 to speculate on future projects, which is an interesting approach to doing an

01:05 interview about transport in an area impacted by a project he's in charge of.

01:11 At least until the election anyway. This matters because the last official

01:16 estimate on HS2 costs, excluding the cancelled eastern section, add up to a

01:21 cool 71 billion pounds. If the government can't follow through with its

01:25 commitments in the north of England questions are naturally raised as to how

01:28 it can be trusted to improve infrastructure in Scotland, something it

01:32 can now do through the internal market bill. Still weighing on that kind of

01:36 investment up the road though, but at least there's good ferries. I say good

01:41 ferries. So what have you learned? Firstly that maybe the Prime Minister is

01:47 saving having a view on literally anything until Tory conference and

01:50 secondly it would be much easier for me to get to that Tory conference if they'd

01:55 simply invested the infrastructure. Until next time I'm Nigel Underbrown and you

01:59 haven't.

02:02 (upbeat music)

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