Labour candidate for London mayor wants clear leadership line to rule out HeathrowLabour was embroiled in its own row over airport expansion on Saturday night as the party’s candidate to be London mayor,Sadiq Khan, called on Jeremy Corbyn to rule out a third runway at Heathrow once and for all and back expansion of Gatwick airport as official party policy. In a slip designed to differentiate his campaign for the mayoralty from the policies of Corbyn and his leadership, or Khan told the Observer that Gatwick was clearly the “only viable option” and that further development at Heathrow would be “disastrous and undeliverable”.
Khan called for a clear line from Corbyn after the party’s transport spokeswoman,Lilian Greenwood, appeared to sit on the fence after the government again delayed a decision on how and where to expand airport capacity in the south-east of England.
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Source: theguardian.com