environment and climate change Articles

Labour attack lines on the Tories were laid out by Ed Miliband in prime minister’s questions today. Broadly they are that the Tories are untrustworthy and divided. Ed Miliband’s questions on climate change reinforced these points. They are good attacks to go on and...

Last weekend, in the midst of the worst flooding the UK has seen in 60 years, Ed Miliband described the UK as ‘sleepwalking into a national security crisis on climate change’. He argued that as a result of political divisions in Westminster over whether or not to...

Each day appears to bring a government U-turn at the moment, but none appears greater than the confusion surrounding David Cameron’s approach to energy policy. Rising energy prices have dominated the political agenda this autumn with the government forced onto the...

A few weeks ago no one would have predicted that we would be in the middle of the party conference season with a debate dominated by energy prices. Whilst Nick Clegg ducked the opportunity to spell out his commitment to a non-carbon energy system, Ed Miliband took the...