Name: Boris Johnson gives go-ahead for high-speed train line HS2
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As you say, there's been no shortage of stories critical of this plan.

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But there was a sense today, rather subdued and house governs.

When Boris Johnson made his announcement that they were giving up the battle, he's the newly elected prime minister with a fat majority who's determined to do this, and you sense that the fire has gone out from most of that campaign as faras Tory MPs.

Our concern doesn't stop being critical, though.

They're saying, What on earth are we doing?

Running a high speed rail link between labor cities and charging it through Tory towns?

Boris Johnson is trying to address concerns like that by putting money elsewhere, not just into a chest to today.

He stole some of the chance of the thunder from his budget announcements by announcing other transport stuff that's gonna be unveiled fairly soon.

He's doing that strong, suggests that a chest tube is not gonna gobble up a ll the money that is available.

He's also trying to take on the criticism that this is a project HS to where the costs are wildly out of control, he's going to say, is putting new cost controls in there in some cases, new management.

What is definitely happening now is that after a long period, the button is finally be impressed on this.

What is the biggest infrastructure project in Europe?

Johnson visited the Birmingham end of the high speed rail link.

It promised a boom in infrastructure spending, a leveling up to help the former Labour seats that backed him in December hs two's budget.

He admitted spiraling and badly managed dumping.

This government will deliver a new anatomy of British transport, a revolution in this nation's public transport provisions and assigned to the world that in the 21st century this United Kingdom still has the vision to dream big dreams and the courage to bring those dreams about.

A new train map is promised to the high speed rail link from London to Birmingham, then hs to a on to Manchester N.

They got the go ahead to but subject to reviews to get costs down.

An independent report released today shows how the estimated bill's going up from 56 to £88 billion could well end up 20% higher than that.

Today, Mr Speaker Cabinet has given high speed rail the green signal way are going to get this done and to ensure that we do so without further blowout to lie the cost, your schedule.

We are today taking decisive action to restore discipline to the program.

At the other end of the line, they're clearing land for platforms at London, Houston Prime minister said a dedicated minister would now watch over eight.

Chest to parts of the project would be under new management.

Train numbers and speeds could be trimmed back to save money.

But Boris Johnson, pressed in summer, is off for a decade of launches and full starts a new north south high speed line.

In the next five years, the first works of a new high speed rail network should be done central London to within 49 minutes of Birmingham first high speed network that I'm I'm announcing today.

You want to get on board the high speed revolution, you gotta start planning that legislation will be introduced to enable the building of the high speed to railway line take it for me just to is going ahead.

The responsible thing to do is to really look at it and say, Is this actually gonna stack up?

The labour leader said Boris Johnson was running away with the labor policy.

Once again we see the government taking ideas from the Labour Party, adopting our language but falling very long way short on the substance of it.

Prime minister announced a wave of transport investment initiatives to help towns that feel a chest to benefits cities and not them.

The biggest benefit, HS, two backers say, is easing congestion on the existing tracks, something that will only get worse without new lines.

It looks like protesters at Denham in became Shut, tried to slow down a digger chest to construction site.

Today, many story critics in Parliament folded their tents and admitted defeat.

Earlier, I spoke to the prime minister on behalf of all U K broadcasters, and I began by asking if his chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, who once described HS two as a disaster zone, was wrong about it.

This is a fantastic project for the country.

It delivers a massive increase in capacity for rail up from north, aside from the north, and then it allows us to go forward and develop a northern powerhouse rail, which is exactly what is needed.

You need collectivity east, west in the north.

You can't make sense of that without a Chester.

The tax pro, though, will receive only 60 p for every pound spent.

Do not forget Cappie that the Treasury, if they had got their way, would have stopped.

The M 25 Treasury would never have allowed the Channel Tunnel to go ahead HS to actually has a better business case today than the end 25 had back there.

Everybody always tries to stop big infrastructure projects at round about this moment.

I remember when I was when I was mayor of London about 10 years ago, 12 years ago, they tried to stop crossroad.

They came to the treasury, came to us and said, Stop talking about Crossrail, this gigantic trench under the middle of London, you know the money could be better spent on other things.

You should do that, Chief Upgrades Way said No, you've got to do both.

We've talked about buses and a five billion bus in cycling, but actually, since the Conservatives first came to power, you cut 3000 roots investment in bus service is has almost hard.

Well, when I was married and then we saw a huge increase in buses and bus ridership.

I'm a passenger, matted believer in buses and what they could do to change people's lives.

And I come at this from from that perspective.

I think if you're living in a town or rural area, which is, you know, you say has seen falling away in its bus service and they have over over decades.

Now is the time to recognize that clean green buses not only help to get cars off the roads, reduced congestion, reduced pollution.

They also given opportunity to people to get to places of work they contain really transform life.

So I'm a massive believer buses, and that's why we're making this investment now.

They will be built in the UK you've over all the objections of your chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, on HS two.

The government Thio this morning took a collective Cabinet decision on dhe.

I didn't hear a peep of dissent news, a couple of random remarks about how to make it even better.

The prime minister speaking to me earlier.

Well, the impact of the new rail line has been greeted with dismay or enthusiasm.

Environmental campaigners say, more than 100 ancient woodlands will be lost along with hundreds of wildlife sites.

They call it costly on damaging a mistake.

But business leaders have already called it great news for investment and growth in many parts of the country.

Home Affairs correspondent Andy Davis has been hearing more in a war extra woodland, where seeds of the HS two projects are already taking root.

The news from Westminster is met with deep resentment were in the climate emergency.

We need to be doing sustainable creation, no destroying the country.

In Covington Woods, near Leamington Spa, where a chest, too, will run, these activists have little time for pledges of new habitats replacing old, including up to seven million new trees and shrubs.

You know, this is listed as being a woodland in the doomsday book, and it's not just about what's above.

It's also about what's below your standing on thousands of years of biodiversity.

You cannot dig up, dump it in a pile over there.

You cannot trans locate an ancient woodland.

We had eight miles north to Burton Green, where HS two will tunnel its way through amid compulsory purchase orders and disruption payments.

Today's news not what Mike Mooney, 35 years of resident of the Village, wanted.

It is a life in the village and just no disturbing the area, the older ones.

Now, as if the ability, life doesn't matter anymore to these people, the morning one determined to put this railroad true.

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