“If Theresa May is sincere about putting meat on the Northern Powerhouse then she should apply the brakes to HS2,” Business Journalist Maggie Pagano writes in a comment piece published in The Times on August 30. She dubs the high-speed railway “another vanity showpiece that may cost £80 billion” and “is unlikely to bring growth to the north”.
- We've read it in: The Times, August 30 2016