HS2 costs to top £100bn, says review’s former deputy

By Jordan Marshall2020-01-06T11:08:00

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Lord Berkeley sends in own 70-page report on scheme to PM

The deputy chair of the independent review of HS2 has hit out at the investigation’s official outcome, saying that parliament has been “seriously misled” and that the scheme will cost more than £100bn.

Labour peer Lord Berkeley, who was appointed second-in-command of the review being led by Doug Oakervee, has published his own report slamming the project and the way the review was carried out.

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