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Now ostracised and out of all influence, a peripheral figure. Joining Zac Goldsmith. Business, The City, overwhelmingly Parliament across all parties and all UK regions wanted and won the day with Heathrow.

This. The big picture. The holiday arrangements of those living in Kent, Sussex, east Surrey, and south London, are small-fry in comparison to the needs of the rest of the population, and that of business leaders who've specifically championed Heathrow. Separately, the London to...

What you say makes sense, SE England dominating more and more. But strangely the SNP, trade unions and northern Labour MP’s all back the Heathrow plans. They see the linked growth and jobs, as Heathrow will be a continent leading hub for trade, tourism and business for all points UK...

Corrected.

The improved / second rail link from Brighton/Gatwick will never happen. It would entail £10b’s compulsory house purchases. Britain is stuck with early Victorian winding railway routes, hemmed in by housing. It wasn’t a late developer or bombed to bits allowing a nice blank canvas. The...

Gatwick, which would also take years to build, would overload road and rail infrastructure creaking at the seams, with the traffic/rail movements of 22,000 new airport workers and 120,000 additional passengers per day. I agree the airport or new runway should've been built somewhere north or...

The M23 and south of London sections of the M25, already rammed and slow, would've become hellish with a doubled Gatwick Airport. It didn't make sense to expand an airport in Sussex, where most of its UK passengers were going to have to travel far and wide from across all of southern and...