Environment

"Seeing impoverished suburban housing in America that each comes with enough land that, if it were in Britain, we would be able to cram a small housing estate on it, a side road and two vape shops."

“I understand they’re under-resourced, but the Government will need to go further and faster if it’s really serious about hitting its net-zero target,” Mr Isaacson said.

"Once again, they’re handing out lucrative permits to the likes of Shell for a project that won’t start producing gas for years, that won’t lower our bills, but will create massive emissions causing deadly flooding and wildfires, and mass migration from people fleeing the climate crisis.”

"It’s clear from the evidence we have collected that the new peatland burning regulations in England are not working and that burning is still taking place at a massive scale."

“The insurance companies are using bullying tactics."

"Rather than making fossil fuel companies pay their fair share, the public purse will actually be subsidising this climate-wrecking investment to the tune of almost £6bn. This is obscene.”

"For the month, I set aside my ethics and my morals and instead just floated along in the breeze of consumerism."

"If it's bad for the climate, bad for countryside, bad for long-term jobs and steel industry doesn't want it, what reasons are there left Gove?"

The proposals have been unveiled in a bid to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuel and scale up the transition to green energy.