Rachel Reeves spune că cabinetul este “unit” în sprijinirea planului pentru a treia pistă de la Heathrow – Politica din Marea Britanie în direct    

Rachel Reeves is now being interviewed by Justin Webb on the Today programme.Q: When did Keir Starmer, who used to oppose Heathrow expansion, change his mind?Reeves says MPs last voted on this about six years ago. Since then a lot has changed, she says.She claims sustainable aviation fuel can reduce emissions by 70%.Q: So you think sustainable aviation fuel has changed the arguments.Reeves says she thinks it is a “game changer”. But she says reforms to the way airspace is used also makes a different. If planes spend less time circulating, they use less fuel, she saysIn our leader this morning, the Guardian says Rachel Reeves’ speech yesterday sounded “desperate and shallow”. Here is an excerpt.
There is a balanced debate to be had around the merits of Ms Reeves’s economic argument and what it omits. Supply-side reform may be necessary. But it is not a sufficient condition for growth. Boosting foreign trade is important, but to discuss it without reference to the European single market is disingenuous. If fiscal responsibility is a goal then it should be achieved by ways other than cutting social spending.
But, economics aside, the cumulative effect of those omissions makes the chancellor’s speech sound desperate and shallow. That doesn’t mean the Treasury’s plan is doomed to fail. It might indeed spur growth. But it is presented without a meaningful political argument, without imagination, compassion or moral purpose. Those qualities might not be necessary to boost gross domestic product, but a Labour government is badly diminished without them.
And here is the full article.Good morning. The Treasury is continuing to give Rachel Reeves’ speech the sort of media treatment usually reserved for a budget; after a week-long advance briefing blitz, the chancellor is now engaged in a day-after full media round. She will be on the Today programme at 8.10am.Here is our lead story overnight about the speech.On BBC Breakfast this morning, in response to questions about whether it is realistic to expect a third runway at Heathrow to be built anytime soon, Reeves said she would liktop see “spades in the ground” this parliament.Asked for a timeline on the plan, Reeves replied:
We want to see spades in the ground in this parliament.
We have asked Heathrow to come forward with plans by this summer, and then we want to grant that development consent order by the end of this parliament, so we can get the diggers in the ground to get this project up and running.
Asked when flights might take off from the third runway, Reeves said:
I think we can get that done in a decade.
Asked if this meant planes would be using the new runway by 2035, Reeves said:
That is what we want to achieve and that is what Heathrow wants to achieve.
(“Spades in the ground” is a metaphor. Or, at least, one hopes so. If they are going to build the third runway with spades, the economy is in even more trouble than we realised.)Here is the agenda for the day.9.