Mary Creagh MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, responding to the Davies Airport Commission announcing they will not be proceeding with the Isle of Grain airport, said:

“Boris Johnson’s fantasy island airport plan which would have closed Heathrow and caused longer passenger journeys has finally been dashed.

“Time and public money should never have been spent on his vanity project whose costs have been put at up to £100 billion.

“This back of a fag packet scheme was designed less for the country’s economic future and more for the omnishables Mayor’s political ambitions.“