HS2 boss set for sack after just four months

THE chairman of rail programme HS2 expects to be sacked in the coming days after just four months in the job.

Sir Terry Morgan has come under major pressure because of fears over spiralling costs and delays on Crossrail, another major infrastructure project which he has been working on for a decade.

He said in an interview yesterday that he expects to be given the boot from both roles within days. He told BBC Radio 4’s PM show: ‘I can only assume that because HS2 is such a critically important programme, and with the sense of disappointment around the performance of Crossrail, that it was considered to be too risky for a programme like HS2 to continue [under me] as chairman.’

Morgan was described as ‘world-class’ when Transport Secretary Chris Grayling appointed him in July. Reports last week suggested that both Grayling and Chancellor Philip Hammond were urging Prime Minister Theresa May to sack him.