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HS2: Parts of construction delayed for two years<\/h3>\n

Rishi Sunak took on numerous grillings this morning in a tough series of local BBC radio interviews.<\/p>\n

His showdown with BBC Radio Manchester’s Anna Jameson was particularly tense, given recent unconfirmed reports the Government plans on scraping the HS2 branch between the city and Birmingham.<\/p>\n

The local presenter voiced her obvious frustration at the PM refusing to confirm or deny the reports, with Mr Sunak merely saying he knows \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of speculation on this\u201d.<\/p>\n

The PM said: \u201cWe\u2019ve already got spades in the ground on the first bit of HS2, and what we’re doing is getting on with delivering it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pressed about Phase 2, the Manchester branch, Mr Sunak said it\u2019s \u201calways right the Government is looking at things to make sure we are doing things in a way that creates value for money\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He swiftly moved on to talking about roads and cars – \u201cthe journeys people use most in Greater Manchester or across the north\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the Government is \u201cmaking sure that the roads are free of potholes, that\u2019s probably priority number one\u201d.<\/p>\n

The exasperated presenter cut the PM off to inform him: \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about potholes!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking about trains, we\u2019re not talking about cars!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Jameson also pressed the Prime Minister on comments he made during last year\u2019s Summer Tory leadership contest, when he told a group of Tories in Tunbridge Wells that he\u2019d change the Treasury\u2019s funding formula to end Labour\u2019s old spending pattern of shoving \u201call the funding into deprived urban areas\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cWell you don\u2019t care about deprived urban areas do you?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr Sunak confidently fought back, saying he absolutely does, but it is \u201ccompletely wrong to say that those are the only places that are deprived in our country\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point I was making – and you said Tunbridge Wells but I was actually speaking to people across the south coast – there are coastal communities, particularly in the south that are deprived and that is the case across our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I say I want to deliver levelling up, I don’t want to pit one region against another. The point I’m trying to make is that we need to level up everywhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat goes equally if you’re in an urban area in the north as you are in a coastal or rural community in the southeast or southwest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Sunak spoke to stations in York, the West Midlands, Manchester, Shropshire, Teesside, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Cornwall and Berkshire.<\/p>\n

He told BBC West Midlands that the situation in Birmingham City Council is \u201cincredibly disappointing that they have mismanaged the council to such an extent\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople rightly will hold them to account. They massively mismanaged their finances. It’s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Sunak added that it is a \u201cglimpse of what you get when Labour are in charge\u201d.<\/p>\n

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