Ahead of a general election expected next year. Heres some of his speech i am ending this long running saga. I am cancelling the rest of the h52 project. And in its place. Applause. And in its place, we will reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new Transport Projects in the north and the midlands, across the country. This means £36 billion of investment in the projects that will make a real difference across our nation. Applause ijust want to remind you exactly what hs2 actually is. Its a High Speed Railway which is what the Hs Stands For and it was touted as the uks biggest infrastructure project, aiming to transform public transport between london, the midlands and the north. The first part, between west london and birmingham in blue is already under construction and will be completed. But the length in red, stretching further north from birmingham to manchester, has now been officially scrapped. A separate eastern leg to leeds marked here in purple had already
On the same day the uk and Republic Of Ireland will now bid unopposed for euro 2028, unopposed for euro 2028, after turkey withdrew to focus on a joint bid with italy for euro 32. Turkey agreed to merge their bid with italy injuly and that has now been approved by uefa. In april, 10 venues were selected for the uk and ireland bid, including glasgows hampden park, cardiffs principality stadium, dublins Aviva Stadium and wembley in london. Uefa will award the hosting of Two European Championships next tuesday. Liverpool Managerjurgen Klopp wants their Premier League game against tottenham to be replayed after luis diazs goal was wrongly disallowed by the video assistant referee. The var team failed to overrule the decision when diaz was flagged offside when the game was still goalless. The referees body, the pgmol, released the audio of discussions between the match officials as they made the decision and when they realised the mistake that had been made. Liverpool went on to lose 2 1. N