Labour aides were keen to emphasise yesterday that the departure of Maria Eagle, a committed supporter of High Speed 2, as shadow transport secretary did not signal any change in the party’s position on the project. But it’s worth flagging up the first statement from her replacement Mary Creagh
After the Treasury select committee warned that there were “serious shortcomings” in the economic case for HS2 and called for the project to be suspended until they had been addressed, Creagh said:
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