HS2's demise may feel like a predictable betrayal as Sunak cancels the trains of the future
Appropriately, the railways weren’t working in Manchester on the day Rishi Sunak cancelled the trains of the long run. A strike left Manchester Piccadilly quiet whereas up the highway, within the convention centre that occupies the Victorian grandeur of the previous Manchester Central station, the prime minister tried to make sure high-speed rail won’t ever…