16.04.10
Conservatives hint at Crossrail U-Turn
Labour has seized on comments made by shadow minister Justine Greening, which Labour claim go against the Conservatives manifesto on Crossrail.
The Conservative manifesto states that if elected to government, the party would support ‘Crossrail and the electrification of the Great Western line to south Wales.’
Despite this Justine Greening told a reporter that she couldn’t give ‘a line-by-line budget on projects across government, including Crossrail. Everything's up for review but we think it's important.’
After being asked if the project would be scrapped she said: “It's possible, but at the end of the day we've always said that we think it's an important project and actually the reason this is important is we want to be responsible, so we can't pretend that we can write an entire budget outside of government. We've said we'll do one within 50 days of getting into government if we get elected and we will then provide some clarity and certainty.”
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