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Occasionally writes about politics and climate.
Anyone paying attention to the right of UK politics will have noticed how anti-net zero sentiment is becoming more embedded - culminating with Kemi Badenoch...
Most voters measure the success of a government on their wallets - they won't vote based on the amount of emissions reduced, unless it also reduces their bills.
In the wake of the local elections, the talk has almost exclusively been centred around what the results will mean for the country in a general election. What do the results say about Labour's chances of securing an outright majority for Labour at the next general election?
In September, King Charles addressed the French Senate and used this historic occasion to reiterate his long-standing environmental credentials. In his speech he called for...
Watching Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Ed Miliband and Anas Sarwar outline Labour's vision for energy and the climate last week, I couldn't help but feel...
If the Conservative Party leadership election has shown us anything, it is the enormous influence Margaret Thatcher still has over the party. Both candidates are arguing they are the true Thatcherite and Liz Truss has even taken to cosplaying as Thatcher to try and win over the membership.
The May 5th elections will not only be important for the future of London, but for the respective careers of Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer. A bad night for the Conservatives could see them loose former true-blue councils like Wandsworth and Barnet, which would only ratchet up the pressure on the prime minister.
A clash of heads between Number 10 and the Treasury is reportedly to blame for the lack of funding being allocated for schemes to make buildings more energy efficient. The UK Government recently released the Energy Security Strategy to mixed reviews, and the lack of concrete support for energy efficiency left policy wonks and energy strategy experts clamouring for more.
As the UK's post-Brexit trade deal was being voted on, Labour MP's, for the most part, fell in line and voted with the government. The vote for the Boris Johnson's deal, orchestrated by Keir Starmer, is a monumental change in position for a man who had once been seen by some as the arch-Remainer.
A little more than one year to the day of Labour's latest general election defeat, and the party continues to wrangle with how to reverse the pattern of failure and engineer electoral success. One hotly debated area has been the need to embrace patriotism. Early on in his leadership, Sir Keir Starmer stated that 'Labour...
