Exclusive: Heidi Alexander to reveal overspends due to poor management, badly negotiated contracts and design changes

Exclusive: Heidi Alexander to reveal overspends due to poor management, badly negotiated contracts and design changes

On Wednesday Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is due to announce that the remaining section of the high-speed railway line will no longer be completed in the target time of…

Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, is to address MPs as the costly, crisis-hit rail project endures another setback

Heidi Alexander branded the building of a new line linking London, Birmingham and the North an 'appalling mess' and told MPs she saw 'no route' to getting trains running by 2033.

Heidi Alexander says billions wasted in ‘litany of failure’, amid speculation cost will now exceed £100bn

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told MPs the gargantuan project was an 'appalling mess', with an audit revealing endemic overspending, hundreds of millions of pounds wasted…

Labour now says the botched high-speed rail project will be further delayed. Why not just scrap it, as the Reform leader suggests? asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins