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Labour peer urges Opposition to make a pitch for countryside vote, but warns it has to challenge perception the left wants to 'pick a fight' with rural communities

Record gains for the Green Party and a collapse in the Tory vote point to how environmental issues could prove key to the coming general election

Green Party takes control of its first ever council and is on track to gain more than 100 seats, as Opposition parties celebrate impressive performance

Greens declare they are 'gaining across the country', as early results point to big wins for Labour, the Lib Dems, and Greens - and heavy losses for the government

The Labour Party has used new figures from the Environment Agency to launch a fresh attack on the Conservatives for the impact of sewage pollution in the UK

MPs on influential 1922 Committee publish proposals for reforming energy markets to tackle 'energy trilemma', including plans to revive the Department of Energy and Climate Change

The UK has endured yet another year of economic underperformance - there is only one route available that can break the pattern of managed decline, but the clock is ticking

George Freeman also confirmed as Minister for Science, Technology, and Innovation, as Mark Spencer reappointed as Environment Minister

New PM signals return to commitments in 2019 Conservative manifesto including on fracking, green farming subsidy reform, and nature protection, but remains tight-lipped on onshore wind

New Prime Minister promises to place Conservative 2019 manifesto at heart of his administration as Grant Shapps replaces Jacob Rees-Mogg at BEIS