Joshua Stein

Rival bidders vying to carry out the expansion of Heathrow Airport have welcomed prime minister Boris Johnson's decision to press ahead with High Speed 2 (HS2).

Although....This prompted questions from MPs about cancelling Heathrow expansion, to which Johnson quipped that he could “see no bulldozers [at Heathrow] at present, nor any immediate prospect of them arriving”...Boris Johnson is yet to declare support for the project, with a definitive statement on Heathrow missing from the Conservative Party manifesto for the December election.

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