Responding to the House of Commons vote in favour of Heathrow expansion, Leader of the Liberal Democrats Vince Cable said:

“This result is disappointing yet predictable. But how is Heathrow is going to deliver the expansion? There are big questions over financing of both the company and the infrastructure to the extent that I suspect the expansion will never happen.

“Residents under the flight path in my constituency will demand to know how Heathrow will deal with the problems of ‘noise sewers’ created by concentrating air traffic.”