Energy and Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Part of Debate on the Address – in the House of Commons at 12:08 pm on 27 May 2010.

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Photo of Ed Miliband Ed Miliband Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 12:08, 27 May 2010

I welcome the hon. Lady to the House. I wish that the Labour party had won her seat, but she comes to the House with a distinguished campaigning record on green issues, and she will inform our debates and bring great expertise to them.

I disagree with the hon. Lady about nuclear power, because we have to plan for the long term. She is right that we have to meet an urgent challenge, but we also have 80% targets for 2050, and we must drive our targets for 2020 beyond 2020 to 2025 and 2030. The Opposition's view is that nuclear power needs to play a role.

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Kaihsu Tai
Posted on 1 Jun 2010 12:16 am (Report this annotation)

Ed Miliband did not return Caroline Lucas in kind by addressing her as ‘my hon. Friend’.