Rachel Reeves has rejected criticism of the Government’s support to expand Heathrow Airport after she set out plans to remove barriers to growth in the hope of kickstarting the UK’s stuttering economy.
Chancellor also vows bat tunnels will not be used in UK infrastructure projects as she defends new growth measures
There are differences in opinion among Labour big beasts over the policy that's promising to deliver long overdue economic growth.
Heathrow's third runway can be built and operating in a decade's time, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. Reeves told the BBC she wanted to see "spades in the ground" in the current Parliament and planes to start using the runway by 2035.
The Chancellor's determination to grow the UK economy has her turning on fellow MPs who risk "putting their own interests above those of the country".
Rachel Reeves has confirmed the Government will support building a controversial third runway at Heathrow and other airport expansion plans despite fierce opposition from some in her own party. In a speech in Oxfordshire on Wednesday,
Londoners strongly support Heathrow building a third runway, a poll has shown, as the Government faces a row with Sadiq Khan over the plan. More than half of people in the capital (56%) surveyed said they were in favour of the expansion, which Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday announced the Government would back.
Heathrow 's third runway could be built and in use by 2035, Rachel Reeves has signalled. Asked for a timeline on the plans, which she backed on Wednesday, the Chancellor told BBC Breakfast: "We want to see spades in the ground in this Parliament.
Blair and Brown pay tribute to Labour guardian who 'changed lives of millions’ - Keir Starmer has been joined by Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband, Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper at service for Tony Blair’s for
Former and current prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Sir Keir Starmer are among the mourners who have arrived for the funeral of Lord John Prescott.Lord Prescott’s coffin was carried into the minster as former Downing Street director of communications Alastair Campbell played the Welsh national anthem on the bagpipes.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says that 'by backing a third runway at Heathrow we can make Britain the world's best connected place to do business'