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Boris Johnson interview onboard train; ENGLAND: INT TRAIN Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) interview SOT. Q - You're spending less on trains, not levelling up A - You shouldn't judge something by how much money you're putting into it... this is a stupendous sum of money, most of which is going to levelling up across the whole of the East Midlands, the West Midlands, the North and the North West, Northern Powerhouse Rail, this is the biggest investment in 100 years, on money alone if you really care about spending money... my top priority is commuter value... Q - You used to be a magazine editor, what would a journalist say - it this spin? A - We're spending a stupendous sum of money, delivering the Y of HS2, you cannot in a country like Britain just go around building colossal new mega lines through countryside, villages, at a cost of hundreds of billions of pounds that takes decades to deliver Q - This is about Conservative / Labour politics A - It will help cities whether they are Labour or Conservative, all cities in the north, Manchester - will half journey times, Warrington to Leeds, saving time and improving connections Q - will you guarantee that the savings will go on other transport in the north? A - 640 billion pound investment in transport infrastructure including buses Q - another broken promise? A - A lot of media negativity, we are delivering transformation, increases in connectivity, increases in capacity, there is unrelenting gloom, ridiculous, crossrail of the north from Liverpool to Leeds and beyond plus a crossrail of the Midlands from Birmingham to Nottingham, revolutionary time saving