Eh? They could have just looked at the reaction to sunak binning much of it.
The British public love to grumble about stuff costing lots/overrunning, but they dislike it vastly more when that thing is abandoned.
Ministers were so worried about criticism of the rising cost of High Speed 2 that they commissioned an internal review into whether it would be better value for money to abandon the scheme.
www.ft.com/content/fcee...
James Bambury
Analysis earlier this year concluded that decommissioning the scheme could cost as much as continuing to build the railway
