Following Rishi Sunak's announcement yesterday (4/10) that the Northern section of the project will be scrapped, local MPs have been giving their reaction to Bucks Radio.
The Prime Minister told the Tory Party Conference that "facts have changed".
“I am ending this long-running saga. I am cancelling the rest of the HS2 project and, in its place, we will reinvest every single penny, £36 billion in hundreds of new transport projects in the north and the midlands, across the country. This means £36 billion of investment in the project that will make a real difference across our nation.”
He went to say that the £36bn saved by stopping the line from Birmingham to Manchester will instead be spent on hundreds of transport projects.
Rob Butler, has never supported this project. The Tory MP for Aylesbury said he wants to see some of that money spent in Buckinghamshire, where the project has been so disruptive:
Conservative Greg Smith, the MP for Buckingham, said the decision is absolutely correct and told Bucks Radio he maintains that phase 1 should also be shelved.
Speaking earlier this week, the Liberal Democrat MP for Chesham and Amersham, Sarah Green, said:
This looming Government U-turn adds insult to injury for the people of Chesham and Amersham. Axing Phase 2 of the project undermines the entire economic case for HS2 and leaves us with an outcome nobody wants.
“My constituents’ lives have been blighted by this ill-thought-out scheme for years now. I have assisted people who have lost their homes, their businesses, lived with the noise and disruption, and seen precious environments and habitats destroyed. And now we find it was all for nothing.
“It has been clear to all of us in Bucks for years that this project was spiralling out of control. I call on the Government to now do the sensible thing and scrap this vanity project once and for all.
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