People coming into the UK could be quarantined for 14 days, he says.
Raab and Patel advocate the positions of their departments, which are based on different concerns and priorities. It is for the Prime Minister to decide.
Common sense must prevail. The ‘use it or lose it rule’ should be relaxed so that airlines can consolidate services where there aren’t enough passengers.
The decision illustrates how previous parliaments have freighted the process of policy-making with an increasingly onerous lattice of ill-defined obligations.
If there’s one thing which ought to unite even the most passionate partisans of the different proposals, it’s the abject state of British decision-making on infrastructure.
At the least, we can expect reduced growth worldwide – and a more expansionary Budget next month.
Plus: Will Javid come back? Will Boris Island fly? Hazzer, formerly the Duke of Sussex. And: an ice bath in a Scandi forest.
If governments are going to keep signing up to ‘legally-binding targets’, this sort of thing will continue to happen. Legislative indolence is the root of judicial power.
Enough daydreaming about unfeasible and unfunded alternatives on islands in the estuary; enough dithering and delay.
Exciting developments in new technology, carbon credits and alternative fuel sources make the goal achievable.
An estuary airport was touted as his big idea on flight capacity during his time as Mayor of London. There’s nobody to stop him now.
Johnson and Shapps may lose a legal case over the expansion plan, and then decide whether or not to go to their favourite place – the Supreme Court.
The enemy is carbon, not air travel. The industry has already decoupled growth in aviation from growth in emissions, and plans further progress.
The Rail Delivery Group has just suggested a more modern system of tickets and fares. But such change should be only the start.
It would be a sad irony if we chose to shut down the international connectivity on which so much of our prosperity depends.