内容摘要：Reflecting on the impact of the drama, Mr Castleton told the BBC: "Nothing warms the cockles of the public than a drama about real people.

Reflecting on the impact of the drama, Mr Castleton told the BBC: "Nothing warms the cockles of the public than a drama about real people.

Former journalist Andrew Gilligan was Boris Johnson’s transport advisor.“He'd scored a huge victory, on the basis of an awful lot of people who'd never voted Tory before in the north,” he says.

“He was concerned that if we cancelled HS2, it would harm his chances of re-election.”Eventually political support for the original vision of HS2 crumbled.The music didn’t so much stop for the line as fade out: the leg to Leeds was winnowed away and lost finally in 2021.

In 2023 then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the leg between Birmingham and Manchester. All that was left was the line between Birmingham and suburban west London – for now, trains would terminate at Old Oak Common and not Euston in the centre of the capital because of a lack of cash.HS2’s problems are very close to home for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Euston site is in his constituency.

The government’s last estimate of the overall cost for the remaining Birmingham to London stretch is between £45 and £54 billion.

But independent rail expert Michael Byng says it could go high as £87.8 billion.to delay its decision until he takes office to enable him to seek a "political resolution".

His lawyer filed a legal brief with the court that says Trump "opposes banning TikTok" and "seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office".That came a week after Trump met TikTok's chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

On Monday, two Democratic lawmakers, Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ro Khanna, also called on Congress and the President Joe Biden to extend the 19 January deadline.During a Supreme Court hearing last week, justices appeared