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New HS2 chief seeks political buy-in but Balls pledges review

HIGH-SPEED RAIL

Andrew Forster
04 October 2013
Higgins: speed up delivery
Higgins: speed up delivery

 

The incoming chairman of Government company HS2 Ltd has urged Britain’s political parties to form a consensus behind plans for a high-speed rail network and says he wants to see if the project can be delivered more quickly. 

Sir David Higgins made the comments as the shadow chancellor Ed Balls gave the strongest indication yet that Labour may scrap the plans if the party wins the General Election in 2015.

Higgins, the current chief executive of Network Rail and former chief executive...

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