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Coffee House Shots

Is Sunak helping Starmer on HS2?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak is on his tour of hard truths, saying the unsayable on areas of policy where he believes his predecessors didn't want to be honest with the public. First we had the net zero pivot – scaling back the government's environmental commitments – and over the weekend there has been speculation that HS2 could be the next victim of tough talking Rishi Sunak. What's the latest? Is Rishi gifting Starmer an easy ride by clearing the weeds on this controversial project? 

Katy Balls speaks to Fraser Nelson and Isabel Hardman. 

Produced by Oscar Edmondson. 

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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots Aspectator's Daily Politics podcast.

0:30.1

I'm Katie Balls, known during the Isovahardment and Fraser Nelson.

0:34.4

So Rishi Srinak is on his tour of hard truths,

0:37.5

saying they're unsavable or at least things that he claims his predecessors

0:41.2

didn't want to be as honest with the public about as he can be.

0:44.7

Isovah we've had the net zero pivot, a delay to the car ban,

0:49.1

boilers being phased out and next up could be HS2, what do we know?

0:54.0

Yeah so this has obviously been something that's been a matter of debating

0:58.0

the Conservative Party ever since HS2 was, I suppose, conceived as a policy and then developed

1:05.5

and there are lots of different reasons why Conservative MPs are anxious about it.

1:10.6

If it goes through their constituency but doesn't stop they tend to be cross

1:14.0

about that more widely and this is where Rishi Srinak concerns

1:20.2

lie the spiraling cost of the project against a backdrop of it being much less important

1:30.0

as a as a mode of transport and indeed actually that the case was never really made

1:35.7

as to whether it was a fast line or a capacity line or what it was supposed to do.

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