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Rishi Sunak claims deploying clean technologies will cost households thousands of pounds, as Keir Starmer promises that Labour would invest in renewables to bring down bills
So now, it seems, we know: Tony Blair’s government pursued a hunting ban after an animal rights group bunged the Labour Party a mere £1 million. Lord Mandelson let the fox out of the bag recently, saying that the debate had got “pretty transactional” and that Labour then went “too far” in promising a ban in its manifesto.
Ripping up red tape, building on the green belt and bulldozing the blockers. That is Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for quicker and cheaper infrastructure delivery and more houses.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, who is worth £345m, had opposed an application to register part of his massive Hertfordshire estate as common so the public could access the grounds.
Hertfordshire council rules area of land on Hatfield House estate – owned by Marquess of Salisbury – is common land