31.10.11
The Labour party will abandon its support for a third runway at Heathrow, the Independent reports. Labour leader Ed Miliband had opposed it when he was in Government, but failed to persuade the then leader Gordon Brown to drop the party's commitment to expand Britain's only hub airport.
The newspaper reports Maria Eagle, shadow Transport Secretary, will confirm the move today in a speech to the Airport Operators Association, saying that ‘the local environmental impact means it is off the agenda’. She will also challenge ministers to take the politics out of aviation by working on a cross-party consensus on the issue.
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