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Gaffer.
It was a Labour project initially.
You forgot to mention that in 2010 it was the Tory / Lib Dem coalition government that took on the responsibility to oversee it. The blame lies solely at the feet of this Tory government for the shambles it turned out to be.
It took this Tory government more than 10 years to finally come clean and admit that the HS2 would be abandoned.