HS2 and the Chinese connection

By Chloë McCulloch2020-02-14T06:00:00

Boris Johnson gave Europe’s largest rail project the nod this week but he still has cost concerns, which makes a proposal from a Chinese company all the more interesting

Contractors working on HS2 must have heaved a collective sigh of relief this week when the prime minister finally came off the fence in favour of the largest railway project in Europe.

Had the whole scheme been axed, industry leaders warned Boris Johnson that there was no back-up plan, no other shovel-ready projects that would have created the jobs and the boost to the economy he so badly needs in the year of Brexit. And the good news got better on Tuesday with the announcement of £5bn for other transport projects, something that was widely seen as a sweetening of the pill for staunch opponents of HS2 within the Conservative Party.

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