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Cameron weighs up Commission’s call for a third runway at Heathrow

The Airports Commission says there is a clear case for building a third runway at Heathrow. But will the Government accept its advice?

Andrew Forster
10 July 2015
Sir Howard Davies says the Government should establish a public body dedicated to ensuring a third runway is successfully delivered
Sir Howard Davies says the Government should establish a public body dedicated to ensuring a third runway is successfully delivered

 

When David Cameron packs the suitcase for his summer holidays, the holiday reading material could well be the final report of the Airports Commission, which has just recommended approval for a third runway at Heathrow. The report presents the Prime Minister with a thorny dilemma because many of his cabinet colleagues oppose a third runway and he himself declared in 2009: “The third runway at Heathrow is not going ahead, no ifs, no buts.” Yet there is also a strong political and...

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