A plane taking off from Heathrow Airport A plane taking off from Heathrow AirportANTI-HEATHROW expansion activists slammed Rachel Reeves for “mis-selling” the third runway to the Treasury as she prepares to leave No 11 when Andy Burnham becomes PM in just over a week.
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No 3rd Runway Coalition chair Paul McGuinness accused Ms Reeves of using data commissioned by Heathrow Airport to “coax” her Labour colleagues into supporting the expansion.
Mr McGuinness said: “It seems astonishing that, rather doing the due diligence of instructing the Treasury — her own department — to conduct an impartial assessment of the economic case for Heathrow expansion, Rachel Reeves chose to pluck panglossian figures from a report that had been commissioned and financed by Heathrow airport to coax her government colleagues and Parliamentary Labour Party into backing Heathrow expansion.
“And that even after her department’s own objective calculations had shown that Heathrow expansion could offer no economic benefit to the UK, she continued to cite figures that are derived entirely from Heathrow’s own sales puff.
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