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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Cleared for take-off - but Heathrow's third runway still faces many obstacles

Let’s put it in pilot language. Heathrow’s long delayed third runway project has at last been given permission to leave the gate where it has been stuck for the last 16 years.

Following Rachel Reeves’s ringing endorsement of the £20 billion scheme - the star turn of the growth revolution the Chancellor hopes will transform her reputation - it can finally begin taxiing to the end of the airstrip

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