{"id":2228,"date":"2014-09-08T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2014-09-08T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:02:06","slug":"campaign-group-critical-of-heathrow-poll-claiming-mps-back-3rd-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"Campaign group critical of Heathrow poll claiming MPs back 3rd runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Campaign group HACAN, which opposes expansion at Heathrow, has claimed that the Mori Poll released by Heathrow Airport today is what it seems.\u00a0<\/strong>Heathrow claims the poll shows that 60% of MPs support at third runway but HACAN argues that claim is misleading as only 143 MPs out of 650 were asked. \u00a0Of those that were polled, 84 backed 3rd runway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the the full article in the Daily Telegraph:\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/fw.to\/sUZOcwE\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/fXtOTh8Ikj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fw.to\/sUZOcwE\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HACAN chair John Stewart said, \u201cVery little can be read into this poll because the numbers questioned were so low.\u00a0 84 MPs out of a total of 650 is far from a groundswell of support for a third runway.\u00a0 It certainly is not evidence, as Heathrow is claiming, that expansion is becoming more politically deliverable.<\/p>\n<p><b>ENDS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>For further information:<\/b>\u00a0 John Stewart on 0207 737 6641 or 07957385650<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign group HACAN, which opposes expansion at Heathrow, has claimed that the Mori Poll released by Heathrow Airport today is what it seems.\u00a0Heathrow claims the poll shows that 60% of MPs support at third runway but HACAN argues that claim is misleading as only 143 MPs out of 650 were asked. \u00a0Of those that were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=2228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Campaign group critical of Heathrow poll claiming MPs back 3rd runway&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}