PM Rishi Sunak last night dropped his biggest hint yet that HS2 will be next on his tough-choices chopping board.
He refused to guarantee the flagship high-speed line would ever reach Manchester, when grilled by The Sun.
He said: “I’m not going to speculate on lots of the other things people will be talking about.”
At a Downing Street press conference, Mr Sunak warned he would be announcing a “series of long-term decisions” in the coming months.
Fears have been mounting that HS2 will be massively scaled back to save tens of billions from its eye-watering budget.