Wera Hobhouse MP: Not a single river in the UK is free from pollution and the Tories keeps muddying the waters
‘Protecting all of our rivers and streams is essential to prevent Britain from becoming an open sewer’
‘Protecting all of our rivers and streams is essential to prevent Britain from becoming an open sewer’
‘The protection of a biodiverse environment has been plagued by ill-management and the government’s failure to understand the tangible consequences of poor biodiversity’
The Labour Party says its analysis shows that since 2016, when Truss was in charge of Defra – raw sewage discharge more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021.
The emptiness of the government’s “programme”, a grab bag of philosophically incoherent and half-baked ideas, has been widely noted.
Tory pressure groups in parliament who support and oppose the government’s Net Zero targets are both increasing their support.
‘The initial draft of Zane’s Law is simple. It demands that local authorities assess the risk posed by land contamination to building safety.’
‘Over the last 20 years we’ve produced more plastic than in the whole of the last century.’
‘They had the chance to deal with the pollution of our chalk streams, rivers and sea, and refused.’
Daily maps of the sewage dumping, along with graphic pictures of murky coastal waters have illustrated the scale of it (400,000 incidents in the last year alone).
Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay are now the joint leaders of the Green Party