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MICHAEL GOVE’S plans to set up an environmental watchdog after Britain leaves the European Union were greeted with scepticism by Labour and campaigners yesterday.
The Environment Secretary claims that this measure would prevent Brexit from undermining hard-won environmental gains and that a statutory body would “hold the powerful to account” and deliver a “green” Brexit.
But his Labour shadow Sue Hayman said the government should also support her party’s environmental amendments to the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill next week.
Ms Hayman said: “We will have to wait to see whether the proposed watchdog will have the independence, powers and funding it needs to properly enforce environmental law after Brexit.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR