HS2 would widen UK north-south divide and should be axed, says report

An artist’s impression of a train on the Birmingham and Fazeley viaduct, part of the proposed route for the HS2 high-speed rail scheme.Photograph: HS2/PAThe government’s planned HS2 high-speed rail project will make the UK even more divided and should be scrapped in favour of boosting services in the less well-off parts of the country, a left-leaning thinktank has said. A report from the New Economics Foundation found that 40% of the benefits of the controversial project would go to