Details of failings were revealed in a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon, as critics branded the project a 'national embarrassment and 'white elephant'.

Labour is set to announce a new timeline on HS2 and efforts to save money after years of delays and spiralling costs

Heidi Alexander will tell the Commons that delivering the beleaguered high-speed rail project may cost triple the £32.7billion price tag it was originally given in 2011.

Cost could have funded programme to send astronauts around the moon - with money left over

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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander gave a significant update on the costs and timetable of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project, which has suffered major delays and spiralling…

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander blames Conservative government for ‘obscene increase in times and costs’

The transport secretary blasted HS2 as a "massively over-specced folly" in an update to parliament on Tuesday.

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander told the Commons she was ‘angry’ about the increase in time and costs

Details of failings were revealed in a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon, as critics branded the project a 'national embarrassment and 'white elephant'.

The government has just set out details of what remains of HS2, and it’s nothing like the big bold project that was promised.

The new target opening schedule for HS2 is between May 2036 and October 2039

Mark Wild, who was parachuted in to rescue HS2 after doing the same for Crossrail, told MPs today that he was convinced it would not be delayed any further.

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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told the Commons yesterday that the severely delayed and over-budget high-speed rail project will now cost up to £102.7billion.

HS2 has never had the attention it needs and the scrutiny its scale demands. This is Britain’s largest infrastructure project, dwarfing the Channel Tunnel by a factor of around…

Die Kosten der Hochgeschwindigkeitsbahnstrecke HS2 von London nach Nordengland explodieren: Aus der „weltbesten Eisenbahn“ wurde eine „massiv überdimensionierte Torheit“.

The government will need to find as much as £33bn in additional cash to fund its revamped plans to deliver HS2.

The government is in thrall to the sunk-cost fallacy. Scrap the project, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins