Revealed: the government email telling HS2 not to make extra £1.76m payouts

Rail project’s chief was warned that making higher redundancy payments ‘would cause enormous reputational damage’A crucial email from government forbidding HS2 from handing an extra £1.76m to departing colleagues can be revealed by the Guardian – and it shows that HS2’s chief executive was warned that even proposing such payouts “would cause enormous reputational damage to the company”.Last week, MPs on the House of Commons public accounts committe