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A worker at HS2's Curzon Street site in Birmingham, May 10, 2021
UNIONS urged ministers yesterday to convene an “emergency summit” to secure the delivery of HS2 as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wavered over scrapping the rail project’s Birmingham to Manchester leg.
The heads of the TUC, Aslef, GMB, RMT, TSSA and Unite unions, in a joint statement, said key stakeholders must urgently be brought together to help get the delayed and over-budget project back on track.
They said delivering the northern leg of HS2 could create more than 17,000 construction jobs in north-west England, with the potential to double the economic output of Greater Manchester by 2050.
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