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With rain and wind lashing the British Isles and numerous flood warnings continuing to be raised both around rivers and along the coast, attention has turned to the substantial cuts made to the environment department. Government spending on flood defences has become a topic of...

George Osborne is likely to be fuming over a report by the Committee on Climate Change this week that not only supports the existing carbon budget set in 2011, but says that it should be tightened. Even more irritatingly for the Chancellor, who seems to have a warm working...

Months after howls of derision met the Labour Party’s pledge to set a hold on energy bills for twenty months if they win the next election, the Conservative-led coalition has been embarrassed by suggestions that they have asked the main six energy providers to not put up their...