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Andy Burnham is facing an immediate backlash over his hint this morning that he could cancel the Heathrow third runway Unite’s Sharon Graham says: “A third runway at Heathrow is essential and we need to get going with it” GMB’s Gary Smith says: “We need to put an end to decades of talk and lost benefits for working people across the country and get cracking” John Armitt, former chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, says: “Cancelling or delaying Heathrow expansion would not release a penny for the north; it would simply send tens of billions of private capital, and the jobs that come with it, somewhere else in the world” Parmjit Dhanda, former Labour MP and executive director of Back Heathrow: “It is now a test of whether Britain is serious about economic growth. It’s time to get it done, and open the doors to nearly £50 billion of inward private sector investment” Labour MP Siobhan McDonagh says: “The debate over Heathrow expansion has been going on for far too long; the time has come to simply get on and build the third runway” Heathrow itself says: “Critically, expanding Heathrow is a national project which will create jobs and boost growth in every part of the country”