How refreshing to hear transport secretary Heidi Alexander approve plans for a second working runway at Gatwick Airport, taking on the ‘eco warriors’ she has previously attacked for blocking airport expansion. Just the one thing, though. Does she really think she has heard the last from them? If she thinks she is going to drive this plan through so that planes will be taking off on the second runway by the time of the next election, as she seems to think, then she is going to be disappointed.

Indeed, Sadiq Khan has already threatened legal action against the expansion. This is going to end up in the courts, and sadly the eco warriors are going to win. Why? Because no airport expansion is compatible with the legally binding target to achieve net zero by 2050. There is no technology which i

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