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1. The Tories’ energy and climate agenda is in a mess – and yesterday it got worse At their conference in Manchester the Tories desperately needed to re-set their approach to energy and climate change. Since the election the government has…
Two weeks ago, in a huge u-turn by the Tories and Liberal Democrats and a big victory for the protection of Britain’s environment, the Government accepted a Labour amendment to their Infrastructure Bill. The amendment represented the…
Update: The government u-turned this evening and decided to accept Labour’s amendment to the Infrastructure Bill (introducing new protections before fracking can go ahead). Shadow Energy Secretary Caroline Flint reacted by saying: “This is…
This morning, Labour tabled amendments in the House of Lords to the Government’s Infrastructure Bill that would significantly tighten the regulations for shale gas extraction in the UK. Since March 2012, when I set out the environmental and…
Despite the ink being barely dry on the Coalition’s Growth and Infrastructure Act, the latest Queen’s Speech has produced yet another Bill to reform our planning regime and promote infrastructure. “It’s like déjà vu all over again”, as…
Fracking is back in the news this week, with a new industry report from EY analysing the potential benefits for the UK. The key word in that sentence is “potential” – as, in what has become a predictable and depressingly familiar sight, the…
Today, the European Council will sit down and discuss two things, the Crimea crisis and the EU energy policy. There is no doubt that out of the two agenda items, how to reverse Putin’s land grab will steal both the headlines as well as the…
Tens of thousands of people were struggling through Boxing Day without power after storms cut them off before Christmas. Engineers have given up their Christmas and worked relentlessly so that no-one needs to spend longer without power than…
Since Ed Miliband's Energy Price Freeze pledge much attention has been put on the failure of the government to do much on energy prices. Except that's not really fair - they did do something two years ago, but it's been an abject failure…
It is a core tenet of our politics that we are stronger as a country and as a society when we work together. It is the simplest and most powerful of principles. One that goes back to the very beginning of the Labour movement and that is…
It seems that with the announcements of their intention to end universality in social security and accept the Coalition’s spending envelopes, Labour are gradually beginning to articulate what the Labour Party’s 2015 manifesto will look…
By Ed Conduit and Tony Winters The balance between public spending and income needs to be better understood by Labour supporters. Ed Balls’ proposal to build 100,000 council houses is about half right in terms of economic recovery. The…
