England’s rivers at risk as Gove expected to rip up rules on new housing with full details to be announced later today
Good morning and welcome to the UK politics live blog. We start with news that
is planning to rip up water pollution rules that builders have blamed for exacerbating England’s housing crisis but which environmental groups say are essential for protecting the country’s rivers., the environment secretary, will announce the move on Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the plans, alongside hundreds of millions of pounds’ worth of extra funding to mitigate the potential impact on England’s waterways.
Scrapping or weakening limits on chemicals from sewage and farm run-offs would be a sure sign that ministers have completely given up on saving our great waterways and the precious wildlife they host.Not content with the levels of pollution in our rivers already, scrapping nutrient neutrality is a disgraceful act from the government. The Conservatives seem happy for Britain’s rivers to get even worse.
We’ll bring you more on that throughout the day, with prime minister Rishi Sunak expected to speak to the media on a visit later this morning. Elsewhere, there is continued chatter about the Mid Bedfordshire by-election following Nadine Dorries’ long-awaited resignation and the government is also expected to confirm it is delaying post-Brexit border checks on food coming from the EU later today. Stay tuned.
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