'I will get Northern Powerhouse Rail built' - Liz Truss

Key Facts

• Tory leadership contender Liz Truss pledged to deliver the Northern Powerhouse Rail scheme in full during the first official hustings of the Tory leadership campaign.
• Speaking in Leeds, Ms Truss asked why transport in Leeds was so bad, and said that transport had not improved much since she lived there as a teenager.
• "Leeds is the largest city in Europe without a metro network", she added, promising to "work to fix that" if elected.
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