Tess Colley

Reform UK has backed away from engaging in talks with the financier Ben Goldsmith on bolstering its nature policies, after “headbanger farmer types kicked up a stink”.

Plaid Cymru is set to form a minority government in Wales for the first time in the party’s 100-year history, following a historic defeat for the Labour Party last week. But what environmental policies can you expect from the Welsh nationalist party?

Climate change has been dropped as a named cabinet brief in the new Welsh ministerial line up, with nature and the environment also absent from named ministerial positions.

All environment and net zero policy will be overseen as part of the sizeable brief of Wales’ new rural resilience minister, the Welsh government has confirmed.

The prime minister has defended his government’s net zero policy following comments from former Labour prime minister, Tony Blair, that the government’s approach to North Sea oil and gas should be ripped up, and reports of a Cabinet rift on the matter.

A claim made by Reform UK that DEFRA has a policy team for “each individual species of fish” has been described as “completely false” by the government, as the right-wing populist party outlines its plans for quangos to be “scrapped” and half of all policy roles to be cut if it ever wins power.

The site of the ‘Devil’s Chimney’ in the Cotswolds has been declared a national nature reserve (NNR).

The government’s approach to planning policy risks a societal backlash due to “raised but unmet expectations”, a coalition of environmental, housing, and transport groups have warned in a letter to the prime minister.

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is seeking election at an upcoming local by-election, in a move that would allow him to run in any future Labour leadership contest. Many reports have speculated about his ambitions, but what is his position on green issues?

The government has published draft regulations outlining how planning reforms to environmental mitigation will be implemented, including detail on “appropriate prioritisation” and the Nature Restoration Levy.