In my area, ill-judged EU rules have helped see all development blocked for nine years, exacerbating the housing crisis whilst doing little to actually protect the environment.
There is now a £56 billion investment programme to curb sewage, with discharges into bathing waters cut by 70 per cent by 2035.
They are an integral part of our natural heritage: a refuge for people and wildlife, while also supplying the essential water upon which we all depend.
These bodies will play an important role in holding this majority Government to account. What will Downing Street make of the results?
Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.
Hunt’s people insist he can surprise Johnson.
The former award explodes the conspiracy theory that honours are being given only to backers of May’s deal.
Jo Johnson is third. Then Greg Hands and Matt Hancock. But those who lead the results may be no less likely to go up than those who trail them.
The Mercers, Tugendhats and Cleverlys get a lot of media coverage. However, most promotions come from the ranks of the toiling Ministers of State.
May’s shuffle continues.
As the Leader of the Opposition prepares to address a CND rally, we must not forget why we need our effective, efficient deterrent.
A renaissance of manufacturing in the UK focussed in the Midlands and the North, as we benefit from our increasingly decarbonised energy market, would be the very best kind of levelling up.