Since Michael Gove took over Defra, the Conservatives have been on a mission to rebrand as the party of the environment. However, some have questioned whether it’s a move that comes from the heart – or one which is down to more cynical reasoning. Theresa May’s former director of communications Kate Perrior said in the Times that her former boss’s enthusiasm for protecting the environment ‘may not be insincere but it is certainly new’:
‘When I was at No 10, Andrea Leadsom, then the environment secretary, was told to make the plan as boring as possible.’
However, times are a’changing in the May household. May’s husband Philip took part in a phone canvassing session at CCHQ last night where he presented a canvasser with a Conservative-branded reusable cup.
Mr S hopes May has one at home already…
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