Controversial Heathrow expansion gets government go-ahead

MPs will be asked to vote on expanding Heathrow airport within weeks after the government gave the go ahead for a third runway.Transport Secretary Chris Grayling told the House of Commons the cabinet had agreed the controversial move, an action he described as "in the national interest".Critics of Heathrow expansion include a number of prominent Tory MPs as well as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who has previously vowed to lie down "in front of those bulldozers and stop the building, stop the