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Its sheer madness to import coal essential for our steel industry Dominic Lawson for the Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Political civil war has broken out in the Johnson family — and not for the first time. The Prime Ministers father, 80-year-old Stanley, has denounced the Governments decision not to block the construction of Woodhouse Colliery, Britains first new deep coal mine in over 30 years. Last week, Johnson Sr pronounced this to be a massive mis...

Boris Johnsons father Stanley has landed a new environmental job in which he will attend the United Nations COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, putting pressure on the Prime Minister.

Farming needs to go back to old fashioned methods to help the environment, says PMs father as he takes on new climate change role Stanley Johnson is now the international ambassador for the Conservative Environment Network Stanley Johnson will be asking the government to commit to wilder farming at COP26 Credit:  Eddie Mulholland Farming needs to go back to old-fashioned methods to help the environment, the Prime Ministers father has said, as he takes on a new climate change role. Stanley John...

To have any climate credibility, Britain must cancel its new coal mine The UK is still failing to demonstrate the environmental leadership needed ahead of this year’s COP summit. Boris Johnson and David Attenborough at an event to launch COP26 Hot, dark, cramped tunnels where the threat of collapse was ever-present. Such were the conditions faced for centuries by the UK’s deep-pit miners. And nor – after recent events in British climate politics – is it an inappropriate descriptio...

Tides of change: how the UK can harness marine power Investing in wave energy can create green jobs and lower emissions Philip Payne/Zuma Press/PA Images The environment has shot up the domestic and global agenda. This is good news for MPs like myself, who are part of the Conservative Environment Network, and renewed emphasis on a greener Britain should stimulate local constituency efforts—in Gloucester, for example, we have ambitious ideas for a Green Energy Park to generate significant sol...