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6. The Only Friend that Mattered

Understand Derailed: The Story of HS2
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A growing chorus of voices is calls for HS2 to be scrapped - but a new prime minister has other ideas

Revelations about waste and delay have left HS2 in poor shape - and ripe, in the view of its political opponents, for cancellation. But, at the opportune moment, a new Prime Minister arrives. Boris Johnson saw HS2 as a cornerstone of his 鈥渓evelling up鈥� agenda, and gave it the green light to proceed even as the country wrestled with the emergency of a global pandemic.

Presenter: Kate Lamble
Producer: Robert Nicholson
Executive Producer: Will Yates
Sound Design and Mix: Arlie Adlington

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