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Ministers can’t blame Putin for the disaster that is HS2

10 March 2023

8:26 PM

10 March 2023

8:26 PM

And I thought the SNP were destined to win the award for this year’s most pathetic excuse – after Scottish transport minister Jenny Gilruth blamed the party’s failure to dual the A9 on Putin’s war in Ukraine. Then UK transport secretary Mark Harper turns up and tries to use the very same excuse for HS2’s soaring costs.

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