Northern MPs tell Labour: change your mind on HS2

Call to spend billions on regional networks, not London connectionsLabour’s leadership is under pressure this weekend to reconsider its support for the £56bn HS2 high-speed rail link, as concern grows among northern MPs that the plan fails to address their areas’ economic needs.Several senior Labour MPs have told the Observer that the huge sum of money earmarked for the project, which will connect London to Leeds and Manchester via Birmingham in the first and second phases, wou