Reeves Tells Heathrow to Build ‘Badly Needed’ Third Runway
- The airport’s expansion is controversial among Labour figures
- Reeves comments in growth speech in Oxfordshire on Wednesday
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves threw her weight behind a controversial third runway at Heathrow Airport, part of the Labour government’s effort to revive growth by waving through long-delayed infrastructure projects.
Reeves urged the west London airport to submit a proposal that meets the government’s carbon emissions, air quality and noise pollution limits by this summer, with the aim of securing permission by the end of the parliament. She said the hub’s expansion, which has been touted since the early 2000s, was “badly needed.”