A general view of a wind farm
TORY ministers are set for “another screeching U-turn” over plans to drop a ban against onshore wind farms, campaigners said today.
Greenpeace UK said the government is “finally beginning to realise the obvious” after Business Secretary Grant Shapps hinted that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could back down amid a growing Conservative rebellion over the issue.
Despite once branding the structures “white satanic mills,” former PM Boris Johnson is reported to be among 30 Tory MPs backing ex-Cabinet minister Simon Clarke’s pro-wind amendment to the Levelling Up Bill.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
MARTIN HALL passes time in the sanguine company of a traditional conservative, recalling their disastrous governments
