The Guardian - Exclusive: Business leaders seek support for scheme in budget as former chancellor calls it mp;#145;good investmentmp;#146;The former Tory chancellor George Osborne has thrown his weight behind a proposal nicknamed mp;#147;HS2 lightmp;#148; that would deliver new high-speed train links between Manchester and Birmingham.Osborne said the worst thing Rishi Sunak did as prime minister was cancelling the northern arm of HS2. mp;#147;It was an act of infrastructure vandalism,mp;#148; he said.
