I've met him, he's really not.Tory Councillor and millionaire, most recently from the public payroll, never held a job in aviation. He's worryingly similar to Bojo in speech and mannerisms, it's very creepy up close.
Sounds like a "mini-me".
As far as I'm aware, there are only two flights that currently deposit transit passengers at Heathrow: the 3-times-weekly KU101 which flies Kuwait-LHR-JFK with a 2 hour stop and KU102 in the opposite direction, so the number of transit passengers per year must be very low.
Indeed, this is the case now that AI no longer does the daily BOM-LHR-JFK (and v.v.)