Show Notes
The Labour Party Conference has concluded.
The party entered its annual conference with a polling boost holding a four-point lead: 27% of the vote, under the newly-elected prime minister.
On the main stage, Burnham used his address to focus on pensions, electoral reform, devolution, and a national care service.
On the environment he pledged that “a strengthened water bill” will be brought forward to Parliament, the “centerpiece” of which will be “the repeal of Margaret Thatcher’s ideological ban on public ownership of water companies”.
In this week’s episode, brought to you from the conference floor, the ENDS team speaks to DEFRA secretary Angela Eagle and hears from experts across the sector including:
Matthew Brown, head of public affairs at The Wildlife Trusts Martin Lines, chief executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network Mary-Ann Ochota, president of Campaign to Protect Rural England Bill Eyres, co-chair of Labour’s Environment Campaign – SERA
With extensive coverage from across the conference, this special episode of the ECO Chamber is brought to you by the journalists of ENDS Report.
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