Ashley Fox

The government is releasing prisoners earlier because it doesn't have enough spaces for them in jails.

A Conservative, Sir Ashley Fox, said the 3,000 prison places that had become available since the general election were all started by the last Conservative government.

So will he tell the House why this government has not planned nor approved any new prison spaces since it came to office?

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The list of things that would go goes on and on and on.

On the climate change stuff, there was an interesting session this morning where Ashley Fox, who is the Shadow Energy Minister, he was talking about the Conservatives' opposition to the Climate Change Act, talking about the, the fact that Conservative government would take us out of all, more green things like the ETS, Emissions Trading Scheme, the, uh, CBAM, the, which is a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

There was quite an interesting exchange where he was challenged on what this might mean for the UK's international climate leadership role, its international credibility, and he, he basically said, "I'm not interested in that." He basically said it was, it was utter nonsense and, and net zero had failed and Conservatives aren't climate change deniers, which I guess is a, a positive, but we still don't want to be beholden to this net zero target.

Oof.