Sir Keir Starmer has accused the government of making a "complete mess" of HS2 and said the prime minister "reheated existing projects" during his speech at the Conservative Party conference.
The Labour Party leader added he was unable to commit to reversing the decision if he were to make government. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The Labour Party leader added he was unable to commit to reversing the decision if he were to make government. 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 Government's made a complete mess of HS2 over 13 years.
00:03 They've lost control of the project.
00:06 Billions of pounds have been invested and now lost.
00:08 Many, many promises have been made, which are now broken.
00:13 I can't stand here and say and commit
00:17 to reversing that decision.
00:18 They've taken a wrecking ball to it.
00:21 What I can say is that an incoming Labour government
00:24 will be laser-focused on growing our economy
00:27 in all parts of the country.
00:29 That means we need better connectivity.
00:31 Northern Powerhouse Rail absolutely
00:34 needs to be delivered.
00:35 So I'm already talking to local mayors
00:38 about how we deliver that.
00:39 We do need that in place.
00:41 But most of all, we need a strategy
00:44 for actually delivering.
00:45 And I don't think anybody's been taken in by the Prime Minister's
00:49 announcement yesterday, where he basically
00:52 put reheated existing projects and pretended
00:56 they were alternatives to HS2.
00:58 Most of those had already been announced many times over.
01:01 And I don't think that he should expect the British public
01:04 to believe a word that he says on this.