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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Toby Helm Political editor

Reeves’s Heathrow expansion plans leave Labour’s green agenda grounded

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves supports a third runway at Heathrow as a way of generating economic growth.
UK chancellor Rachel Reeves supports a third runway at Heathrow as a way of generating economic growth. Photograph: Avpics/Alamy

In 2020, Rachel Reeves, the MP for Leeds West and Pudsey, was clear why she opposed expansion of nearby Leeds Bradford airport. It would, she said, “significantly increase air and noise pollution”, so on environmental grounds, it should not happen.

By the autumn of 2021, as shadow chancellor, Reeves was the senior Labour figure chosen to lead her party’s hugely ambitious plans for a green industrial revolution.

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