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		<title>Does Labour have the Balls to build HS2?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ed Balls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-speed rail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the fence that the Labour Party is sitting on over HS2 becomes any thinner, someone is going to suffer a very nasty mishap. Labour’s official line is that it]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry rail buffs: Great British Public will always believe HS2 is a colossal waste of money</title>
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		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/sorry-rail-buffs-great-british-public-will-always-believe-hs2-is-a-colossal-waste-of-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was no doubting the gold-plated credentials of speakers at the Greengauge 21 HS2 conference at Millennium Point in Birmingham. Lord Deighton, Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and chairman of]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham New Street commuters face chaos if HS2 isn&#8217;t built, warns Network Rail</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/birmingham-new-street-commuters-face-chaos-if-hs2-isnt-built-warns-network-rail/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/birmingham-new-street-commuters-face-chaos-if-hs2-isnt-built-warns-network-rail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham New Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department for Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HS2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Network Rail has renewed its campaign for HS2 by warning that failure to build a high speed track between London and Birmingham would plunge existing commuter services into chaos. Passengers]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Millennials need HS2</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/millennials-need-hs2/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/millennials-need-hs2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Mulvihill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby boomer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost–benefit analysis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thechamberlainfiles.com/?p=11572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Mulvihill reasons while speed, time and capacity are important, the greatest argument for HS2 is through its generational legacy. There’s something the silverbacks complaining about HS2 need to realise: HS2]]></description>
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		<title>Standing room only &#8211; HS2 is the only way to meet soaring demand</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/standing-room-only-hs2-is-the-only-way-to-meet-soaring-demand/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/standing-room-only-hs2-is-the-only-way-to-meet-soaring-demand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Inskip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Association of Train Operating Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Inskip]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director General of Centro Geoff Inskip hammers home the case for more capacity: HS2 is the only option to meet the huge growth of rail users. With a growing population]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>HS2 is a classic case of cold feet</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/hs2-is-a-classic-case-of-cold-feet/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/hs2-is-a-classic-case-of-cold-feet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Adonis</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Adonis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[High Speed 2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was first published in the New Statesman and has been re-produced here with the kind permission of Lord Adonis, transport secretary in the last Labour government. Lord Adonis argues the]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Media mogul blasts PR ineptitude</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/media-mogul-blasts-pr-ineptitude/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/media-mogul-blasts-pr-ineptitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Riley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department for Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-speed rail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Member of Parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Mandelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publicity stunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warwickshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Coast Main Line]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thechamberlainfiles.com/?p=11484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Phil Riley, Chief Executive of Orion Media, owners of Free Radio, explains how the case for HS2, good or bad, has been damaged by bad public relations. I should start]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all about capacity, capacity, capacity</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/its-all-about-capacity-capacity-capacity/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/its-all-about-capacity-capacity-capacity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Blackett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Speed 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPMG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patrick McLoughlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Coast Main Line]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://thechamberlainfiles.com/?p=11478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Blackett, Chief Executive of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group, explains why HS2 was never about time or speed &#8211; without it we&#8217;ll be overwhelmed. In hindsight the whole campaign]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>The next six months are make or break time for HS2</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/the-next-six-months-are-make-or-break-time-for-hs2/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/the-next-six-months-are-make-or-break-time-for-hs2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HS2 Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department for Transport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HS2]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patrick McLoughlin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Coast Main Line]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is sadly true that Government attempts to sell the benefits of high speed rail in a country where costly infrastructure projects are generally greeted with scepticism have been poor]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Could HS2 follow TSR2 and Maplin Sands to the Treasury knacker&#8217;s yard?</title>
		<link>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/could-hs2-followtsr2-and-maplin-sands-to-the-treasury-knackers-yard/</link>
		<comments>https://thechamberlainfiles.com/could-hs2-followtsr2-and-maplin-sands-to-the-treasury-knackers-yard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Dale</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alistair Darling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gisela stuart mp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HS2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maplin Sands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roger godsiff mp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Coast Main Line]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is November 2015 and Britain’s new Labour-Lib Dem coalition is about to announce the findings of an emergency public spending review. Prime Minister Alistair Darling, who took over as]]></description>
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