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The Mancunian Way: Burnham channels Jim Royle

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Keep up to date with all the big stories from across Greater Manchester in the daily Mancunian Way newsletter. You can receive the newsletter direct to your inbox every weekday by signing up right here. Hello, It’s apparently been 25 years since the first episode of The Royle Family aired.

I wonder if that’s what inspired Andy Burnham to channel Jim Royle this morning? The Greater Manchester mayor was reacting to news that Rishi Sunak is considering scrapping the Manchester leg of HS2. “Levelling up?

My a**e,” he wrote on X. “The Government is guilty of gross mismanagement of HS2 and of making the North pay for their failure.” At least £2.3bn lost Mr Burnham was commenting after the Prime Minister and Chancellor apparently met to discuss the possibility of abandoning the second stage of HS2 - which would connect Birmingham and Manchester - as costs spiral amid severe delays.

The Independent’s Jon Stone has revealed that Mr Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have been looking at a cost estimate which shows the government has already spent £2.3bn on stage two of the high-speed railway - but shelving the Northern phase would save up to £34bn.

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