Think Hinkley is an expensive white elephant? Not compared with HS2 | Nils Pratley

The Treasury select committee’s chair is right to say HS2 has the weakest economic case of all the major infrastructure projectsIt was a good day to query the government’s use of flimsy statistics to justify massive infrastructure projects. After Hinkley, we’re on to Heathrow’s third runway and HS2 – and Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury select committee, is unhappy on both fronts.On airports, he still hasn’t had a reply to five requests for more detailed