Reeves says that is not what bosses at Heathrow say.
the HS2 bat tunnel. But there will have to be a bat tunnel for the Oxford-Cambridge rail plan. What are you proposing?
Reeves says decisions need to be made differently. There will be a Nature Restoration Fund. Developers will have to pay into that. But it might fund environmental measures somewhere else.
Q: So the bats might not be protected in one particular area?
Reeves says there are trade-offs. She claims that the current rules go too far.
The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.
Q: So, if the Oxford-Cambridge rail line goes ahead, it won’t have a tunnel to protect bats.
“Other ways will be found,” Reeves says.
And that is the end of that interview.
According to Politico’s London Playbook, Reeves has three more interviews to go: on Good Morning Britain at 8.30am, Bloomberg at 8.50am and GB News at 8.55am.
Labour is getting those projects off the ground, she says.Labour inherited these prices.
But the goverment is acting to bring those prices down. It is investing in wind farms.
Q: But why not keep gas going too at the same time.
Reeves says onshore wind is the cheapest form of energy. The last government blocked that.
And she says the UK is “blessed” with offshore wind opportunities, with a shallow coast at the North Sea.
She says the government is approving energy projects. A solar farm in Cambridgeshire had been waiting for approval under the Tories for three years. Ed Miliband approved it quickly, she says.
7.59am.)European single market is disingenuous. If fiscal responsibility is a goal then it should be achieved by ways other than cutting social spending.
But, economics aside, the cumulative effect of those omissions makes the chancellor’s speech sound desperate and shallow. That doesn’t mean the Treasury’s plan is doomed to fail. It might indeed spur growth. But it is presented without a meaningful political argument, without imagination, compassion or moral purpose. Those qualities might not be necessary to boost gross domestic product, but a Labour government is badly diminished without them.
And here is the full article.
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