For anyone thinking the govt might be softening on LHR's 3rd runway, this article suggests otherwise:
I'm not sure if Ms Villiers has any more credibility than Greening - was she not the one who as shadow transport secretary promised that the new hs2 line, which only goes as far as Leeds and Manchester, and only then by 2032 - would be a replacement for the third runway?
I still think the runway plan has serious flaws, but what I take exception to is the idea that you can have the government pretending to have an "open" consultation on the matter whilst at the same time saying that Heathrow isn't even on the menu, as the transport secretary already has her token Greenpeace plot there!