Campaign group HACAN has welcomed London Mayor Boris Johnson\u2019s pledge that he will \u201ccontinue to fight against a 3rd\u00a0runway\u201d if elected as the next MP for Uxbridge.\u00a0 He made it clear when he was selected to fight the seat for the Conservatives on Friday that there was no chance he would change his stance on a third runway.<\/p>\n
\u00a0HACAN chair John Stewart said; \u201cIf Boris becomes the next MP for Uxbridge, it will make it much harder for any Conservative Government to build a third runway.\u00a0 Boris will be put it under huge pressure from a constituency within sight of Heathrow.\u00a0 His influence over Labour would obviously be less but a Labour Government could not afford to ignore him.\u00a0 Boris may yet have a decisive say in where a new runway is built\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n Stewart added, \u201cWhile the short-term speculation will be how Boris will square his desire for a Estuary Airport with the wishes of his most of his Uxbridge constituency to keep Heathrow open, the longer-term impact of his selection may be more important in the airports debate.\u201d<\/p>\n In Uxbridge Boris two main challengers are expected to be Labour\u2019s Chris Summers<\/strong> who wants a \u2018better not bigger\u2019 Heathrow and Jack Duffin,<\/strong> a rising star within UKIP and chairman of their youth wing, who has made it clear that UKIP if firmly opposed to a third runway.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Campaign group HACAN has welcomed London Mayor Boris Johnson\u2019s pledge that he will \u201ccontinue to fight against a 3rd\u00a0runway\u201d if elected as the next MP for Uxbridge.\u00a0 He made it clear when he was selected to fight the seat for the Conservatives on Friday that there was no chance he would change his stance on … Continue reading “Third Runway: It may be all about Boris”<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232"}],"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=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}