But a Thames airport could feasibly be less than 20 minutes away by high speed train/maglev...
I am begging you, read from Page 1. "Could be" and "Will be" are different sets.
Particular attention to all the business, of which I work for one who rely on the proximity of LHR for international connections and based all the way from Canary Wharf from Canary Wharf to Bristol. A "High Speed Rail Link" is going to be little use. Also such an uncosted undertaking is dangerous. HS2 is already a massive capital expenditure in itself and we really need Crossrail 2, so the idea of another expensive train set going from Fantasy Island connecting all those other places it needs to and not just central London is frankly ball breakingly expensive even in the best of times.
These are not the best of times......
The taxpayer makes millionaires of enough railway fatcat already (Hi Richard!), thanks very much.
Main problem is political airheads with no project management credibility or real world experience. Boris Johnson has never once in his life held down what we would recognise as a "real job". Even editing The Spectator was more of a hobby.