Boris Johnson insisted he has not reneged on his promise to 'level up' the north of England, after scrapping plans to link the HS2 rail line to Leeds. The £96bn project has long been touted as a means of linking the prosperous south-east with cities in the Midlands and the north. Johnson said cutting one arm of the route short, and upgrading parts of the existing network instead, would deliver improvements more quickly

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