Get back on track, Mr Sunak: Britain’s big business bosses in exasperated rallying call over HS2

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There are growing fears that the ongoing uncertainty is causing investors to pull out of the UK, after The Independent first revealed plans by Mr Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to scale back the high-speed rail line. In an excruciating round of interviews with BBC local radio stations, Mr Sunak repeatedly refused to commit to phase 2 – and instead suggested that fixing potholes was “priority No 1” and blamed Covid for failing railways. It came as the TUC and other trade union chiefs demanded the Sunak government convene an “emergency summit” to find a solution to the cost of the Birmingham to Manchester route as they called on the prime minister to commit to building it in full. 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