Labour would commission inquiry into HS2 costs, says Reeves

By Daniel Gayne2023-10-09T12:31:00

Shadow chancellor also unveiled plans to ‘get Britain building’

The Labour Party will commission an independent expert inquiry into HS2 to work out how future infrastructure can avoid cost overruns, the shadow chancellor has announced.

In her speech to the party conference in Liverpool today, Rachel Reeves slammed that government’s failure to keep costs on the rail project under control and said Britain had become the “sick man of Europe” when it came to major project delivery.

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