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Shapps: Scrapping HS2 would free up billions for other plans

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Shapps: Scrapping HS2 would free up billions for other plans

Shapps: Scrapping HS2 would free up billions for other plans

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said a cancellation of the HS2 project would free up "tens of billions" that could "be spent on other things".

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