In a letter to today’s paper, the energy and climate change secretary has, in effect, confirmed that the emissions standard won’t be included in the coalition’s first energy bill. Instead, he uses the letter to reaffirm his commitment to bring forward the new green measure “as quickly as possible”.
As The Guardian reveals on its front page today, the coalition may be about to U-turn on David Cameron’s flagship green policy of introducing tough new emissions performance standards to stop the dirtiest coal-fired power stations, like Kingsnorth, from beingtest
Labour leadership candidate Ed Miliband has challenged Chris Huhne to stand up against “free-market zealots”, accusing the climate change and energy secretary of “turning your back on green industry”.
On his first day in office David Cameron promised “the greenest government ever”, having told the electorate to “vote blue to go green”. Just yesterday, climate change secretary Chris Huhne wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times calling for Europetest
The economic Lib Dems are seemingly finding common ground with Tory ideology, but the sticking point was and is always going to be the other side of the Lib Dem fence where Mr Huhne and the like reside.
Chris Grayling’s immigration cap policy was criticised last night at an ippr event. Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne described it as “completely Stalinist.”
There has been much coverage recently regarding the comments from the UK Drug Policy Commission who have suggested that “smarter” drugs policies are required. The crux is that there is currently too much focus on seizure and arrests and nottest
