Climate Change

Part of Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 5:20 pm on 8 May 2007.

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Photo of Gregory Barker Gregory Barker Shadow Spokesperson (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) 5:20, 8 May 2007

As I was saying, thanks to the leadership of my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney, the modern Conservative party is squaring up to the daunting changes of climate change with a sense of realism, as well as of hope and optimism. We have embarked on the most ambitious and comprehensive environmental policy review in our party's history under the leadership of Zac Goldsmith and my right hon. Friend Mr. Gummer. That work is close to completion, and we will be able to find common ground with the Liberal Democrats in many elements of it. I hope that in future they can work with us more constructively than they have done in the recent past.