Tory conference 2023 – live: Sunak set to finally confirm he will scrap HS2 rail link to Manchester
Priti Patel and Nigel Farage dance at the Tory party conference
Rishi Sunak is expected to finally confirm he will scrap the HS2 rail link to Manchester as the Prime Minister makes his first party conference speech as Tory leader on Wednesday.
weeks laterThe Independent While Mr Sunak revealed he wanted to scrap the northern part of the line, he will confirm this in a speech in which he will also attack the last 30 years of “broken politics”.
He will argue that he is the political leader who makes the difficult decisions necessary for the good of the country, while at the same time accusing the Labor Party of wanting “power for power’s sake” and being “all that matters.” our politics is wrong.”
But it is HS2 that will steal the headlines.
The row over high-speed rail overshadowed much of the conference after Mr Sunak repeatedly refused to clarify its future. He is expected to announce the northern section will be abandoned – but commit to building HS2 to Euston rather than having it end in the west London area of Old Oak Common.
This came after his ministers vowed to send prisoners abroad and warned voters of a “migrant hurricane”.
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Braverman was introduced at a fringe event as the “darling of the conference.”
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Previously, the Interior Minister gave a highly inflammatory speech at the conference in which he compared migrants to a “hurricane”.
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