Conservative Party

A flagrant betrayal of the democratic contract is unfolding as Members of Parliament abandon the very voters who entrusted them with their seats - defecting to new parties midway through their term. This ugly, unholy disregard for the expressed will of the electorate is nothing short of disrespectful, selfish, and arrogant.

An extension of a ban on controlled burning on deep peat on England’s uplands announced by Defra has been criticised as “reckless, naive, dangerous and self-defeating” by an MP whose constituency vast swathes of the carbon-storing material.