Labour’s Louise Haigh has committed to a crackdown on “rip-off” petrol station prices and car insurance fees as well as promising “radical” railway reforms.

The shadow transport secretary and MP for Sheffield Heeley also pledged to deliver a cross-Pennine railway connection to Northern Powerhouse Rail within Labour’s “fiscal rules”.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the cancellation of the northern HS2 leg at the Tory Party conference on Wednesday, October 4, saying that instead £36b will be spent on transport projects across the country.