[TheOtherHobbes]

Tory governments have negative interest in "levelling up" the North. There's a lot of rhetoric, but all the action has been destructive.

Liverpool to Hull would be transformative, as would an improved service to London.

But the Leeds leg of HS2 was (predictably) one of the first things to be cut, so I wouldn't expect either to happen any time soon.

[panick21_]

Its pretty terrible, that line would have had a major capacity impact on all the other Eastern lines. It goes a long way destroying the major benefits of HS2.