MPs Delegation to Meet Prime Minister on Third Runway

A delegation of Labour MPs met the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Room of Number 10 this week to explain to him the consequences of allowing a third runway and sixth terminal at Heathrow. The delegation included MPs Andy Slaughter, Martin Salter, Ann and Alan Keen, Martin Linton and myself. Fiona McTaggart MP had joined us for an earlier meeting with the PM the week before.

The arguments against expansion at Heathrow were put very forcefully to the Prime Minister in the hope that even at this late stage the Prime Minister could be convinced of the need to pull back from his obvious support for expansion.

The Government is set to announce its decision over the next month but it is fairly clear now that the opposition to the third runway is so widespread that there is neither majority support for this expansion in Parliament nor in the country.

The scale of this opposition is so vast now that whatever the Government eventually announces it is increasingly obvious that there is no realistic prospect of a new runway being built at Heathrow.

I took this short video of some members of the delegation after they left Number 10 and the meeting with the Prime Minister.

submitted by John on 14 Nov 2008 at 00:19