Evening Standard: "Boris Johnson supports Stansted hub as 'easiest' solution"

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"Today Mr Johnson criticised the 'panda-like pace' at which the Government was coming up with a solution, and again rejected Heathrow expansion.

"He said:

"I urge leaders of UK business now to look at the extraordinary potential of the alternatives either at Stansted or at the two estuary sites that, with sufficient political will, could be delivered on roughly the same timescale as the third runway at Heathrow and would be very largely financed by some of the international investors at Davos today."

However, City Hall sources acknowledged that Stansted increasingly looked like the front runner to get the Mayor’s backing."