Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen does not hold the relevant powers to deliver his first election pledge, according to the Government.
Rishi Sunak has been warned scrapping the northern leg of HS2 would be the “final nail in the coffin of levelling up” as the north would be left to “pay the price” for the Government’s mismanagement of the multi-billion rail project.
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