Even Nadine Dorries thinks Rishi Sunak is wrong not to attend COP27 as she clashes with Jacob Rees-Mogg
Sunak has also demoted the climate minister, kicking Graham Stuart out of Cabinet.
Climate Change
Therese Coffey in car crash interview when asked what she does in her own life to look after the environment
“Don’t worry about the rivers everyone. Therese Coffey is on the case. She’ll scoop out all that pollution with her permanent reusable cups.”
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‘What we want is a socialist Green New Deal with public ownership’ – FBU vice president Ben Selby
Left Foot Forward spoke to Ben Selby at the TUC’s 2022 congress
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of news from progressive outlets…
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Tory minister pushes to downgrade importance of climate change in trade deals
Conor Burns said he had been fighting back in his first two weeks at the Department for International Trade against plans ‘to push net-zero and the environment to the top of every single trade agreement as a sort of policy objective’.
A Must Watch: Ed Miliband completely rips apart Jacob Rees-Mogg for lifting fracking ban
“So first, why doesn’t [Rees-Mogg] admit the truth, that anyone who knows anything about this subject says his claim that fracking will cut bills is nonsense.”
Liz Truss unlikely to attend COP27 climate change conference, despite promising to do so
‘In July, Truss told a hustings of Tory MPs that she would be at the next UN climate change conference — due to be held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in November’
Campaign launched to oppose Liz Truss’ plans to approve the biggest oil field in the North Sea
‘Rosebank won’t do anything to lower our energy bills, or make our energy supply safer.’