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Sadiq Khan urges Labour to back expansion at Gatwick
Labour’s mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan has called on the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to back expansion of Gatwick airport as official party policy.
Khan, who is currently leading the polls against Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, said expansion at Heathrow would be ‘disastrous and undeliverable’.
"I’m calling on David Cameron, Zac Goldsmith and my colleagues in the Labour party – Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell – to get behind Gatwick now. It’s the only viable solution to this problem," said Kahn.
The call came after the Government delayed the decision over airport expansion until at least summer 2016, claiming it needed to undertake more work on environmental impacts, including air quality, noise and carbon.
It had been expected to make a decision by the end of the year following the Airports Commission’s recommendation of a third runway at Heathrow.
The delay was met with anger and disappointment by leading business groups and the travel industry.
The British Chambers of Commerce accused ministers of being ‘gutless’.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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