Will Sadiq Khan lie down to stop Heathrow runway takeoff? | Brief letters

London airport expansion | Keir Starmer’s agenda | English pubs | Trump’s orangery | Scotching puns A decade ago a former mayor of London threatened to lie down in front of the bulldozers to stop Heathrow expansion. It obviously worked. Time for Sadiq to repeat Boris’s threat (Heathrow submits ‘shovel-ready’ plans for third runway, 1 August)? David Duell Durham • In his article comparing Starmer with Attlee, Martin Kettle asserts that there are “echoes of Attlee’s agenda in Starmer’s” (Critics say Starmer is no Attlee – and they’re right. Labour must look to the future, not the past, 31 July). Perhaps he could also tell us what that agenda is. Alasdair Macdonald Glasgow