How Expanding Air Travel Has Led to a Cabinet Dogfight ; ANALYSIS Pressure Is Growing to Develop Stansted or Heathrow but Economic and Political Concerns Have Split Labour's High Command Higcommanndit Comes Down to Politics and Economics. Either Way, the Economic Benefit Will Carry a Political Price

Michael Harrison and Barrie Clement, The Independent (London, England)

IT COMES down to politics versus economics - Blair versus Brown.

While the Chancellor argues that the strength of the economic case for expansion at Heathrow airport is irrefutable, the Prime Minister asserts that the Government has far more to lose electorally by opting for the West London airport and should go for Stansted instead.

In some senses Heathrow is the most obvious candidate for an extra runway. It is the busiest international airport in the world, handling about 60 million passengers a year.

Supporters of further expansion there argue that without a third runway London will rapidly lose out to rival airports such as Paris, Amsterdam and …

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Publication information: Article title: How Expanding Air Travel Has Led to a Cabinet Dogfight ; ANALYSIS Pressure Is Growing to Develop Stansted or Heathrow but Economic and Political Concerns Have Split Labour's High Command Higcommanndit Comes Down to Politics and Economics. Either Way, the Economic Benefit Will Carry a Political Price. Contributors: Michael Harrison and Barrie Clement - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: October 24, 2003. Page number: 4. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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