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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Jacob Phillips and Nicholas Cecil

Heathrow boss who 'went to bed' amid power station fire crisis fails to get backing of Keir Starmer

No10 and Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander declined to say they had confidence in the Heathrow boss who reportedly went to bed instead of working through the night after a blaze knocked out an electricity substation near Europe’s busiest airport.

Thomas Woldbye, the chief executive of the west London airport, was also facing questions over whether it was the right decision to close it down, causing huge disruption.

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