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England’s scaled-back rail plans are not a betrayal, says Grant Shapps
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Promises to upgrade links for the north and Midlands have not been broken by the government in its scaled-back rail plan for the region, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has insisted, in the face of a storm of cross-party criticism from leaders in northern England.
The Integrated Rail Plan, published on Thursday, set out a scaling back of the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project and the axing of the planned east Midlands to Leeds high-speed line, with HS2 trains instead running on existing upgraded routes.
Tory MPs were among furious critics in the Commons on Thursday, with Huw Merriman, who chairs the Commons transport select committee, suggested Johnson was “selling perpetual sunlight and then leaving it to others to explain the
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