The Standard
Chris Blackhurst
08 November 2026
The airport’s chief says a decision must be made by December, business and unions back it, but will the PM defer to Londoners, whose mayor is against the expansion, asks Chris Blackhurst
The clock is ticking for Heathrow. There is less than a month to go before the much-mooted and long-delayed third runway must get the green light from the Government, or else. Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow’s chief executive, set the deadline of “by December”, warning that unless his company’s investors — which include the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Singapore and China — received final reassurance, they would pull out of the £33 billion scheme...
