So Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, is in favour of building airports now? That’s a turnaround. In January she railed against Labour party leader Keir Starmer when he dropped his opposition to a third runway at Heathrow. To execute such a U-turn in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ is ‘reckless, short-sighted and indefensible’, she cried. ‘The planet’ will suffer thanks to Sir Keir, she warned.
Yet now she’s all about airport construction. Suddenly she loves it. Not here, though. Not for us undeserving Brits. No, it’s in Mirpur in Kashmir that she wants to see terminals being erected and runways constructed. She has put her name to a weird MPs’ letter calling on the Prime Minister of Pakistan to acknowledge the importance of building a new international airport 5,000 miles away in Mirpur.
Try to get your head around this. One month Sultana is chastising the PM for even thinking about expanding capacity at Heathrow.
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