Heathrow26 Jun 2018 18:53
Heathrow Airport’s controversial third runway has got the go-ahead from MPs after decades of delay.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also stayed away from the Commons, staging a much-ridiculed, eleventh hour trip to Afghanistan to avoid having to break the Government whip on the vote.
The vote - by 415 to 119 - means that the expansion of Heathrow has cleared its main legislative hurdle as MPs approved the National Planning Statement (NPS) that paves the way for the £14bn construction project.