Politicians blamed by engineers for HS2 collapse

The cancellation of the Northern leg of HS2 almost a year ago was caused by a combination of political factors, according to a report by the Institution of Civil Engineers. The project had already lost its Eastern Leg to the East Midlands and Yorkshire. The ICE has concluded that politicians were to blame for the spiralling costs, rather than engineers or the construction industry. It says: ‘It is not possible to separate politics from major infrastructure projects.’