Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, 2016. Yui Mok/PA Archive/PA Images. All rights reserved.The UK electorate is being forced to make stark choices at the snap general election. The spin from Number 10 is that the poll is a fait accompli – the Tories will stomp home because Labour is in such disarray. But politics has not been predictable for some time now.
The rush to the ballot box does pose significant problems for Labour, Lib Dems, the Greens and UKIP in agreeing manifesto commitments and explaining to the electorate the complex arguments of hard versus soft Brexit, clean versus dirty Brexit. Will the environment even feature as a major election issue?
Here is a crib sheet of what the main political parties have said in relation to the future of European environmental regulations. Will Britain become a green powerhouse, or return to the status of dirty man of Europe? Will it be the electorate that decides?
