CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves’s Heathrow claims were based on a report commissioned by the airport itself, it has emerged.

Ms Reeves has said a new third runway would create 100,000 new jobs and that: “According to the most recent study from Frontier Economics, a third runway could increase potential GDP by 0.43 per cent by 2050.”

The Frontier Economics consultancy has confirmed that it had been commissioned by Heathrow to write the report, but insisted it had been an entirely independent exercise.