George Osborne backs ‘HS2 light’ plan for Manchester-Birmingham route
Exclusive: Business leaders seek support for scheme in budget as former chancellor calls it ‘good investment’ The former Tory chancellor George Osborne has thrown his weight behind a proposal nicknamed “HS2 light” that would deliver new high-speed train links between Manchester and Birmingham. Osborne said the worst thing Rishi Sunak did as prime minister was…