Surely Andy, this dead horse is already buried

Andy Burnham says he 'would revive HS2' if he became prime minister

Andy Burnham has said he 'would revive HS2' if he became Prime Minister by using a 'Crossrail style' of funding.

The Greater Manchester Mayor said that he would revive the northern leg of HS2, between Birmingham and Manchester, as he claimed the 'lack of high-quality rail infrastructure in the north of England holds back its growth potential'.

Speaking to the i Paper about what he would do if he became Prime Minister, Burnham said 'if you put that infrastructure in, it lays the foundations for higher growth'.

He was ineffectual and vaguely helpless here as he had always been. One of those personalities who, in spite of all their words, are inarticulate, he seemed to have inherited only the vast tradition of human failure — that, and the sense of death.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned (1922)