HS2 review bigwig says cost of railway is now over £100bn

By Dave Rogers and Jordan Marshall2019-11-14T06:00:00

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The former deputy chair of the group looking into whether HS2 should be built or not has said the cost of the scheme is now over £100bn.

Labour peer Lord Berkeley, who was appointed second-in-command of the review being led by Doug Oakervee, made the claim in a letter he sent Oakervee 24 hours before the review’s draft report was leaked to a national newspaper on Tuesday.

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