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Government Renegotiates HS2 Contracts to Save Money

Emily Cartwright

Government Renegotiates HS2 Contracts to Save Money on Railway That May Eventually Reach Somewhere Britain reduces cost of high-speed line by considering lower speeds, fewer destinations and a commemorative bus Renegotiation, Constructively Described BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND — HS2 executives and government officials have been attempting to renegotiate major civil-engineering contracts as the project confronts enormous cost increases, delays and continuing uncertainty over its final delivery. The original report on the contract…

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Andy Burnham’s Redistribution of Wealth Plan

Roper Penberthy

Andy Burnham’s Northern Redistribution Plan: Ten Absurd Examples Exaggeration and irony, deployed at motorway speed, with a diversion via Rochdale 1. London’s Spare Money Will Be Located and Sent North Treasury investigators will search behind every sofa in Kensington, underneath every champagne bucket in Mayfair and inside the expense accounts of consultants who charged £900,000 to recommend “regional fairness.” Any recovered coins will be loaded onto HS2, meaning they should…

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Andy Burnham’s Northern Redistribution Plan

Chelsea Bloom

Andy Burnham’s Northern Redistribution Plan: Ten Absurd Examples Exaggeration and irony, deployed at motorway speed, with a diversion via Rochdale. The Financial Times has argued that Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham should launch a devolution “big bang.” Under Burnham’s own interpretation of northern redistribution, this apparently means shaking Britain by the ankles until everything expensive falls out of London’s pockets and lands somewhere near the M60. Burnham has spent years telling the Lords Economic Affairs…