A Channel 4 documentary to be broadcast this evening will claim that the government is considering only building HS2 as far as Birmingham, or even halting it altogether, amid spiralling costs.
Professor Stephen Glaister, former head of the Office of Rail and Road, will claim on the Dispatches programme that HS2 has not been properly thought through, suggesting that giving larger sums of money to Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle might have been more effective.
The programme is also set to claim that the annual cost of the project, originally estimated at £4.2bn, could rise to £6bn.
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