Heathrow Airport: MPs to vote on third runway
Heathrow Airport: MPs to vote on third runway
25 June 2018
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The government says it is taking "the biggest transport decision in a generation"
MPs will decide whether to build a third runway at Heathrow airport later, in a vote likely to expose splits in both Labour and Tory ranks.The spotlight is on Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who vowed to lie in front of bulldozers to stop expansion.He faces criticism for missing the vote - although Theresa May defended his trip abroad as showing he was "the living embodiment of global Britain".Other Tory MPs have been ordered to vote in favour of the runway plan.With the government issuing a three-line whip to its MPs - and about 40 Labour MPs expected to vote with them - it is widely expected that the expansion plan will get Commons backing.
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25 June 2018
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Related TopicsHeathrow Airport expansion
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PA
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The government says it is taking "the biggest transport decision in a generation"
MPs will decide whether to build a third runway at Heathrow airport later, in a vote likely to expose splits in both Labour and Tory ranks.The spotlight is on Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who vowed to lie in front of bulldozers to stop expansion.He faces criticism for missing the vote - although Theresa May defended his trip abroad as showing he was "the living embodiment of global Britain".Other Tory MPs have been ordered to vote in favour of the runway plan.With the government issuing a three-line whip to its MPs - and about 40 Labour MPs expected to vote with them - it is widely expected that the expansion plan will get Commons backing.
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Heathrow runway to 'change lives forever'
How …