Osborne: Cancelling HS2 will be a great tragedy
Former chancellor George Osborne has said it will be a "great tragedy" to cancel HS2 and hopes the Cabinet will see the project through. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It would be a great tragedy, as I've said, to cancel HS2.
00:03 It's the biggest levelling up project the country has got.
00:07 And in the end, if you want to make long-term decisions,
00:09 and I fully support Rishi Sunak in wanting to make
00:12 those long-term decisions,
00:14 that includes huge investments in infrastructure like HS2.
00:17 So I hope it's not too late and the Cabinet sticks
00:21 with the policy of previous Conservative
00:23 and Labour administrations and goes ahead with this project.
00:25 I'm a huge fan of the line across the Pennines,
00:29 HS3 or Northern Bowers Rail.
00:30 I was the first person to propose it.
00:32 So I'm all for going ahead with that.
00:34 But it's not a substitute for HS2
00:36 and it's not an alternative to HS2.
00:39 Those projects should go ahead together.