This is the front of the Yorkshire Post.
25m passengers a year
250m tonnes of freight a year.
A very grandiose masterplan BUT the comment "over to you Mr Grayling" perhaps shows the poverty of knowledge when it comes to aviation decisions.
Other than possibly diverting the East Coast line to DSA I'm unsure what other inflence he has.
It's a bit like HAL suggesting every regional airport in the UK from Alderney to Wick will be connected to Heathrow once rw3 arrives ! It's not them fronting up the money or making the route decisions.