The Defence Secretary denies he is stifling debate, and attacks “misdirected individuals”
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If the rationale for a plan keeps changing – and figures and calculations with it – voters should smell a rat.
He adds that the high-speed rail route is something that could “change the economic geography of this country”.
Labour will provide enough time to commit us – and then Balls will spring £50 billion of spending pledges from the saving of cancelling HS2.