UK: Airports Commission chair calls for immediate Heathrow third runway vote

Howard Davies, chair of the Airports Commission, has called for a parliamentary vote on airport expansion to be held without delay and reiterated the commission’s preference for a third runway at Heathrow. Davies also said “the froth has gone off the London property market”. He said he saw no reason why the House of Commons vote on airport expansion should not go ahead straight away. Theresa May has been accused of “dither and delay” by Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, after putting off the vote for another year, amid worries about resignations of Conservative MPs. “I’m very nervous about a situation which says: ‘We can’t do something because people will protest.’ We have a democracy in this country,” Davies said. “We should put it to the House of Commons and see what the vote is". <br/>