Shapps says ‘outside reality’ not to reconsider HS2 as Labour says it cannot make decision without more information – as it happened

Grant Shapps says Rishi Sunak prepared to take difficult long-term decision' when asked about future of HS2 rail project. This live blog is closed

In Manchester, the first buses to be brought back into public control in England since deregulation in the 1980s have begun their first services.

Darren Jones, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said the Labour party would love to see HS2 being built in full" but that it was not going to make decisions about national interest projects that involve tens of billions of pounds without all of the information being available".