These are personal views immediately following upon the publication of the White Paper on Airports Policy and not those of any organisation with which I am associated. They are, however, my views of the national interest.

I would expect there to be considerable disagreement with a White Paper which traverses so many areas where local conflicts abound. No policy could satisfy all on a subject which evokes so great an emotive response from many quarters, and in which even the smallest of pressure groups reacts with frenzied fury against any proposal with which it disagrees.