Article from BTNews 17 OCTOBER 2016
All-party MPs back Heathrow
Leading figures from every major political party in the UK in a letter to Theresa May released yesterday (Sunday) have called on the prime minister to clear Heathrow expansion for take-off. A statement on the expansion is expected tomorrow.
They say she has the opportunity to deliver on a key pledge from her Conservative Party conference speech – “to take big decisions about the country’s infrastructure”.
The letter says a decision for Heathrow is a decision for the whole of the UK, with thousands of new jobs and billions in economic benefits for every region and nation.
The letter was signed by 50 politicians from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, including former Cabinet minister Stephen Crabb, the DUP’s Nigel Dodds and Welsh Labour’s Stephen Kinnock.
In it, they urge the prime minister to green-light Heathrow expansion “in the interests of all of the UK’s nations”. Conservative MPs from the South West and Labour politicians from East London and the North East have also recently written to the PM backing Heathrow.
They join the growing number of leading figures, businesses and communities around Heathrow calling on Theresa May to say ‘yes’ to the opportunities that they say only expanding Heathrow can deliver.
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