(18 Oct 2023, 5:33 pm)Rob44 wrote https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...l-27935869
Who telling to truth Dricoll or Gannon??
Neither put simply.
The caveat for the funding is a directly elected mayor, but already it is known funding across his realm won't meet the requirements of cost of what is in effect a new railway.
The figure will be well in excess of £2bn as costings were taken some time ago and prices of every material have since risen.
Driscoll would be ideal as an independent, and therefore unlikely to be penalised by petty party politics, but even if Starmer end up PM, don't expect much money coming our way.