HS2 services may be halved - and trains run at lower speeds.
So, dig up half the countryside, evict families from homes and farmland they have owned for decades, spend billions for a railway nobody wants, and now the reason for it all, to get to London half an hour earlier, is to be shelved anyway to save money.
https://news.sky.com/story/reports-hs2-services-will-be-halved-and-run-at-lower-speeds-dismissed-as-speculation-by-govt-12805768