Boris Johnson Suggests Heathrow Third Runway Won’t Be Built Soon

London Heathrow Airport in 2015. 

Photographer: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg
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Boris Johnson suggested the chances of London Heathrow airport building a third runway anytime soon are low, as he deflected a question in the House of Commons about whether he’d live up to a pledge to try to block the building work.