Work has stopped on HS2, but the Tories are still digging Britain into a hole

One of the many whoppers to emerge from the recent Conservative party conference was Rishi Sunak’s claim that “our Brexit freedoms make us ever more competitive”. When I was at school, “freedom” was used in the singular; but these days, as Cole Porter wrote, anything goes. There are promises of…

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