Work has stopped on HS2, but the Tories are still digging Britain into a hole | William Keegan

The loss of a national asset that would have aided levelling up' shows how little Rishi Sunak is really committed to long-termism

One of the many whoppers to emerge from the recent Conservative party conference was Rishi Sunak's claim that our Brexit freedoms make us ever more competitive".

When I was at school, freedom" was used in the singular; but these days, as Cole Porter wrote, anything goes. There are promises of freedoms" all over the place.