Policing | The head of the Metropolitan police, Sir Mark Rowley, has said the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation may be irreparably damaged by the egregious errors made in the first weeks after the killing. UK news | Richard Ratcliffe - husband of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – alongside the families of other political prisoners, has accused the Foreign Office of complacency after it rejected a call by MPs to overhaul the way it goes about trying to secure the release of British nationals overseas. Rishi Sunak has been criticised by those within the party and even his own net zero tsar for falling woefully short on tackling the climate crisis – and those criticisms have only become more acute following the news that yet another pledge is under threat.įor today’s newsletter, I spoke to Neil Carter, a professor of politics at the University of York, about the Conservative party’s track record on environmental policies.

It is no longer a given that most of the party is behind pushing environmentally friendly measures – in fact the opposite is often true as the issue of the climate crisis divides the Conservatives. Over the years, green Tory policies have been abandoned or watered down beyond recognition. Fast forward 18 years, four elections and five prime ministers later to this week’s news that Rishi Sunak may abandon a £11.6bn climate pledge, and the picture could not be more different.

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