Let’s help London’s £53.5bn airport investment opportunity take off

The report highlights how London’s global success has been underpinned by its connectivity. Yet those connections are straining through a combination of a Byzantine planning system, regulatory hurdles and rising, policy-driven, operating costs. If London can’t get airport investment off the ground, it’ll be left on the tarmac while other country’s growth flies, says John Dickie The eyes of the world over the coming weeks will be on the man leading the country and whether he will be able to defy the odds by defeating his rivals. But enough about Thomas Tuchel and the England men’s football team. What about the Prime Minister and the government?  Following bruising local election results, the Labour Party is unsurprisingly assessing its best way forward. Whatever the outcome of any potential leadership challenge, it is vital that the government recommits to its growth mission and swiftly delivers so that people start to feel better off.  That means fixing our economic fundamentals and where better to start than accelerating the delivery of shovel-ready, privately-financed transport projects that will provide a significant boost to growth.   A new report from BusinessLDN and global consultancy Arcadis underlines the scale of the or watch our rivals steal a march.  John Dickie is Chief Executive of BusinessLDN