Given a choice between nature and growth, Labour seems far too willing to burn and destroy whatever is necessary and that includes our climate.

The expansion of Heathrow would be a climate disaster, but that won’t stop Reeves. The fact that Heathrow is an economic parasite on the rest of the UK economy might.

Heathrow is a hub airport, which means that a quarter of passengers are passing through on the way to somewhere else. That is expected to increase to a third with expansion. The bosses of Heathrow Airport make a lot of money from those transfer passengers, the UK economy doesn’t.

Since the last parliamentary vote on Heathrow the number of people using it for business trips has collapsed due to the world taking meetings and trade online.

Three times as many people use it to fly out of the country on holiday, as fly in. Money is spent in places like Barcelona rather than Blackpool, or the Caribbean rather than Clapton.

The negative impact on our own holiday industry is compounded by the government’s own analysis which shows that Heathrow expansion could increase regional inequality, by moving up to £43bn of GDP and 27,000 jobs out of the wider regions and into the south-east.

Heathrow expansion will also cost the taxpayer. The massive investment of £22 billion into Carbon Storage and Capture is linked to the production of the blue hydrogen that they hope the planes of Heathrow will eventually use. The technology is unproven and its environmental benefits dubious, but that won’t stop the Ministerial press releases.

There are also the impacts of air pollution and noise at a regional level? Any party that supports Heathrow expansion is going to take a political hit and London has never elected a Mayor who is pro expansion.

Labour has a huge parliamentary majority, but on a historically low vote. It has already made a series of unpopular decisions about two child benefit, winter fuel allowance, and public sector cuts. There are a lot of London Labour MPs who found themselves facing Green Party candidates running in strong second or third place in the general election. Heathrow may soon join the long list of reasons why their constituents would prefer a party who mean what they say about being green.