{"id":108348,"date":"2023-10-04T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sunak-scraps-hs2-manchester-leg-and-confirms-plan-to-raise-legal-smoking-age\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:00:56","slug":"sunak-scraps-hs2-manchester-leg-and-confirms-plan-to-raise-legal-smoking-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/sunak-scraps-hs2-manchester-leg-and-confirms-plan-to-raise-legal-smoking-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunak scraps HS2 Manchester leg and confirms plan to raise legal smoking age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/erjtXfTNT0Y\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Sunak scraps HS2 Manchester leg and confirms plan to raise legal smoking age\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/erjtXfTNT0Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Construction of the HS2 leg between Birmingham and Manchester wiil no longer go ahead, the prime minister told the Conservative party conference on Wednesday. Sunak said &#8216;every single penny&#8217; of the \u00a336bn allocated for the high-speed rail branch would be invested in other transport projects. <\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also announced plans to increase the legal smoking age by one year every year and to introduce a new qualification in school \u2013 the &#8216;advanced British standard&#8217; \u2013 that would combine A-levels and T-levels and see students studying England and maths to the age of 18 <\/p>\n<p> UK politcs: latest updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the HS2 leg between Birmingham and Manchester wiil no longer go ahead, the prime minister told the Conservative party conference on Wednesday. Sunak said &#8216;every single penny&#8217; of the \u00a336bn allocated for the high-speed rail branch would be invested in other transport projects. 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