Government set to fund £1bn final HS2 London tunnel drive

The Government is set to give the go-ahead for the final HS2 main tunnel drive under London to Euston station.
The project was halted as part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s £6.5bn cost-cutting plan announced last October.
This involved axing phase 2 to Manchester and finding a private investor to pay for the final 5.4-mile TBM drive to the station and the redevelopment of Euston site through over-station development.
According to Whitehall sources, the Government has decided now to