Rishi Sunak’s misguided attempt to woo irritated British drivers
A fight over speed limits, bus lanes and potholes is a dead end
The Manchester Central Convention Complex began life as a grand railway terminus. It will also be remembered as the place where hs2, Britain’s biggest rail project in a generation, was killed off. In a speech there on October 4th, closing the Tory party conference, Rishi Sunak scrapped the northern leg of the high-speed line. The £36bn ($44bn) saved, the prime minister said, will be spread among hundreds of transport projects, mostly in the Midlands and the north of England.
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The war on the war on motorists”
Britain October 7th 2023
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