The secretary of state for the environment has been labelled “a quack”, after saying that there may be advantages to climate change for the UK. On...
A controversial scheme that aims to boost the housing market, by allowing people in England to take out 95% mortgages, will be launched this week, three...
Scrapping plans to build the controversial HS2 rail link would be “a disaster”, the transport secretary has warned, as David Cameron admitted there is a limit...
The chancellor George Osborne has said that he does not want the UK to be at the forefront of efforts to prevent climate change, as the...
When it comes to climate change and environmental protection, the Conservative party is often seen as having a big green dividing line down its middle, with...
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have returned a £520,000 donation left to “whichever government is in office” by an elderly woman in her will. The parties...
1972 was an historic year for the embryonic environmental movement. As well as the UN Conference on the Human Environment, which took place in Stockholm in...
Lady Thatcher’s funeral procession has begun in London. The former prime minister died on April 8 aged 87. Thatcher was a deeply divisive leader, but she...
After Silva, El Ali and Lidegaard comes the UK’s first representative in our rundown of some of the most environmentally-minded politicians from across the world. Charlie...
Conservative MP Tim Yeo is heading a revolt within parliament over the lack of a decarbonisation target in the government’s energy bill. In a speech at...
The political reaction to Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations was predictable. The Liberal Democracts and Labour were in full support; the Conservatives against. We need real national...
The government has decided against including a decarbonisation target in the forthcoming energy bill, delaying the decision until at least 2016. An announcement by the Department...
Labour leader Ed Miliband has attacked the coalition’s green agenda in a speech at Whitelee Wind Farm in Scotland, saying that David Cameron’s government is “not...
In his speech today, David Cameron rallied the faithful, attacked the opposition and attempted to reach a sceptical electorate. Our economy, the sixth largest in the...