It’s the issue facing all MPs this recess: what do you do for your summer hols? It’s not just Covid causing confusion this year, with approved travel lists going from green to amber at a moment’s notice – there’s also the environmental question to consider. Some MPs are reluctant to cast aspersions on their eco-credentials by jet-setting abroad at a time when constituent homes remain flooded, in this, the year of COP26, when Net Zero (and its associate costs) are all the rage.
Indeed for Labour MP Luke Pollard, the floods have served as a ‘wake up call’. The shadow environment secretary has been everywhere this week, furiously firing off quotes proclaiming the ‘urgent need to decarbonise faster;’ decrying the ‘shocking’ ‘lack of ambition’ from the government, how ‘we won’t solve the climate crisis by tinkering around the edges’ and that ‘we all need to play our part.’
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