Why the energy has gone out of Tory green policy | Damian Carrington

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Conserative party conference suggests David Cameron and his ministers dont have a single new thought on the environment

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but if the Conservative Party has any new ideas on energy or environment it hid them exceptionally well at their party conference.

The speeches of prime minister David Cameron, chancellor George Osborne, energy minister Matt Hancock and environment secretary Liz Truss all passed without a single new thought on green matters. The most we learned was that Osborne still thinks fracking is cracking and Truss really, really likes apples. I will not rest until the British apple is at the very top of the tree, was her closing, if not rousing, line.

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