In April 2020, the then chancellor Rishi Sunak gave his approval to a new railway to Birmingham, expected to cost 44bn.Contracts were promptly signed.The overall HS2 project is estimated at 100bn.An infuriated Whitehall official told me at the time: Never let that man say he cannot afford any item of public expenditure.
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