When Rishi Sunak cut high-speed rail, commentators wrongly saw it as a betrayal of the red wall vision. But the nonsensical red-wall agenda was never needed.
In October, Rishi Sunak stopped pretending that high-speed rail project HS2 was a conscionable use of finite public resources. He wasn’t thanked.
In fact, for scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the high-speed rail line, the prime minister took more flak than his predecessors had for overseeing the astronomical cost overrun of the project.
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Financial Times
Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.
