Boris Johnson to propose lower UK air fares and rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland

Radical plans to speed up travel around the UK - including a rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland - are being unveiled by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. They include a controversial proposal to slash domestic air fares - by cutting air passenger duty on internal UK flights - and plans to improve rail, road, sea and air links. But cutting air passenger duty has been condemned as undermining UK climate change commitments and a rail tunnel has been dismissed by the Scottish government as a "vanity project". The transport revolution is contained in a report commissioned by the...