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HS2: Boris Johnson vows quicker rail upgrades amid backlash; ENGLAND: INT TRAIN Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) set up shots with reporter sitting on train / 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, 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, 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 Q - Re Owen Patterson and MPs' standards, why can't you say sorry? A - People want to see that Parliament is working in a cross-party way Q - They also want to see an apology. People seeing tough times, wages, inflation - angry at what's going on in parliament A - We should focus on people who are going to be having a tough time over the next few months, we've got to make sure we look after them