While the Conservative Party conference was in session, Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, gave an interview to the Financial Times in which he said, with reference to HS2: “We want to make sure we get trains to Leeds in a way that actually benefits people on the network and not blindly follow some plan invented 15 to 20 years ago which no longer benefits people.”
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