Taking off? Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to the Easyjet CAE Simulator Centre at London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex. Photo: Belinda Jiao/PA Wire

The decision to allow a second runway at Gatwick is entirely sensible and most welcome.

As the Chancellor said yesterday on her visit to the airport, the development “will mean that people going on holiday will have a greater choice of destinations [and] it will mean lower costs for a family holiday.” More importantly, she added that it will bring “more good jobs paying decent wages through this injection of cash into our economy.”

Quite how the additional 100,000 flights a year squares with the UK’s legally binding (and poorly thought-out) climate commitments is for another day – or a judicial review, a

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