Sources suggest PM could announce new spending on bus, tram and train schemes if he decides to axe part of HS2

Senior rail industry insiders said it would be “madness” to cancel the multibillion-pound HS2 scheme. One told the Guardian that NPR would be “buggered” because it relied on the Manchester link of HS2, and claimed there was “nothing ready” in the government’s integrated rail review that could replace it.