Eight MPs that are campaigning for an airport to be built in Mirpur, Pakistan voted against Heathrow expansion in 2018.
Mohhamad Yasin, Debbie Abrahams, Rosena Allin-Khan, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, James Frith, Imran Hussain, Afzal Khan, and Yasmin Qureshi – all Labour MPs – signed a letter this week calling for an airport to be built in Mirpur, Pakistan.
They were joined by a number of Labour and independent colleagues, as well as two Lib Dem peers.
Zarah Sultana, who was not an MP when Heathrow expansion was last put to parliament, signed the letter. Earlier this year, she called the Prime Minister’s decision to back a third runway “indefensible” in the “middle of a climate emergency.”
In the letter calling for the airport in Pakistan to be built, the parliamentarians argue that British Pakistanis will benefit from the more convenient travel that the project would permit.
They also say: “the neighbouring regions of Jhelum, Dina and Gujarat would also gain from improved international transport connections.”
One signatory of the letter, Andrew Pakes, said in a tweet in 2012 that: “Some people are obsessed with Heathrow expansion. But not a peep on other transport links.”
Also signing the letter was Dr Rosena Allin Khan, MP for Tooting. Previously, she’s tweeted that “the environmental harm” of Heathrow expansion “will harm my children, my grandchildren and generations to come.”
