Never before have we been so united. 🙌🏻
Today, along with the Minister of State for Transport, parliamentarians of various political persuasions attended the latest meeting of the APPG for the Leamside Line.
MPs were eager to discuss what’s next following the Government’s recent announcements and what they will mean for projects like Leamside.
As a result of the scrapping of the northern leg of HS2, more than £1bn of extra funding is coming our way, resulting in the North East having a total allocation of more than £1.8bn to spend on transport.
This extra funding has done precisely what I and, indeed, Labour MPs have called for: it has given the money to the North East to let us get on with things.
I look forward to my continued cooperation with colleagues as we work towards getting spades in the ground.
