When heading up the transport brief for Labour Maria Eagle showed a great ability to apply one nation politics to transport policy. She was brave enough to engage with questions of ownership and also to chart a course that would...
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This week has been perhaps the last sunny one of the summer. But if you notice a haze in the air, that’s because we are experiencing yet another smog episode in London.
In the past few days alone, figures have shown...
Who could disagree that a progressive development agenda provides an essential route to social justice? Certainly nobody participating in the Green Labour panel discussion on sustainable development and poverty reduction at the Fabian Summer Conference did, but there was a...
Transport emissions are responsible for more than a fifth of the UK’s contribution to climate change. Ministers have failed to deliver the step change needed to tackle this environmental crisis, despite the coalition agreement pledge “to make the transport sector greener...
There have been concerns from some environmentalists that Labour doesn’t ‘get’ the importance of political leadership on climate change. Any such fears can now be banished after Ed Ball’s speech to the Green Alliance.
It was a speech about infrastructure that...
It is a troubling conclusion that the environmental movement has been unable to capitalise on overwhelming evidence in favour of dramatic co2 emissions reductions. In the same way that the financial crisis did not automatically improve the fortunes of the...