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Andrew Griffith: “I refuse to accept for a single moment that the country of Brunel and Bazalgette, of the vaccine taskforce and the…”

On the recordOctober 5, 2026
I refuse to accept for a single moment that the country of Brunel and Bazalgette, of the vaccine taskforce and the Mulberry harbours, has to sit around waiting until the 2040s to get a third runway built.
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Andrew Griffith
Conservative Party

Editor's note · Context

On the urgency of building a third runway at Heathrow.

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