The Transport Secretary is expected to say there's "no reasonable way to deliver" the line on time.

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…

Government set to announce project will be delayed beyond 2033

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.

As the government announces a further delay, here are key moments in the troubled project’s history so far

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

The Transport Secretary is expected to say there's "no reasonable way to deliver" the line on time.

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…

Troubled high-speed railway line connecting London to Birmingham to be delayed beyond 2033.

Troubled high-speed railway line connecting London to Birmingham to be delayed beyond 2033.

HS2 is now expected to open after 2033 as transport secretary Heidi Alexander called its management under the Tories a ‘litany of failure’

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