HS2: Ministers to oversee build as costs 'spiral'

Ministers are to take take a direct role in overseeing the building of the HS2 rail line to try to "get a grip" on the rising cost of the high speed route between London and Birmingham.Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said it had long been clear that the cost of HS2, which could reach £65bn, had been allowed to "spiral out of control". She said she had now seen "up close" the "scale of failure", which she…