Even an editorial endorsing it, which demonstrates that Murdoch is now onboard.
Hardly. The Sunday Times is the broadsheet end of his empire. If The Sun backed it, then that might been something, but then again....
Since Murdoch controls most political parties, this is a significant development.
He has controlled the mice in Labour and the Tories who have been desperate for his approval. He has never had any impact on the Lib Dems, and vice versa!
Either way, what little interest he has left will be on the big economic and legal issues, if he did take any view on airport expansion, he'd be backing the most economically sensible option, which is Heathrow.
Far more likely for him right now to be jumping on his editors to make capital of Skippy Air jumping into the sand pit, rather than to be taking any interest in a fantasy proposition that will never take off.
44% of Londoners would prefer a Silver-Boris Thames airport, against 24% wanting Heathrow expansion
Really, did
you ask the ST to run this poll for you?
Unless we had a system of direct democracy, these decisions are largely going to be taken by the technocrats, so I'm not sure a poll really proves much:
Do you like aircraft noise? Do turkeys vote for Christmas?
Should we "save" the environment? Yes. Where do you go on hols?
The same polls will tell you that Birmingham makes a great place for a hub airport. Now try conducting a poll of people who actually know what they are talking about - ie airport or airline bosses. The result - one airport boss will tell you BHX is a good place for a hub! Not even his biggest base airline - Flybe - are interested, but for some bizarre reason they do back Boris Island!
Surprisingly, the list of airlines that back FBI ends there. Or does Silver know of others?