Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Steve Reed

Ministers stay silent on pledge to ban foie gras as EU talks approach

Exclusive: Animal rights groups fear veterinary deal aimed at reducing border checks will prevent promised import ban

The Guardian - UK

Dangerous meat could appear in UK’s supermarkets, Tories warn

Shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins urged the Government to adequately fund food security checks at Dover port.

The Independent UK

Trump’s Gaza plan tests Starmer’s business-as-usual pretence

Prime minister and colleagues use political code to push back at proposal without directly criticising US president

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

We must see Palestinians able to live in homelands, says Lammy

The Foreign Secretary’s comments came after US President Donald Trump suggested he does not ‘think people should be going back’ to the Gaza Strip.

Evening Standard

Watch live: Starmer grilled in parliament after Trump declares US should take over Gaza

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer faces Prime Minister’s Questions after Donald Trump announced his plan for the US to take over Gaza and turn the war-torn strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East”.

The Independent UK

Monthly bin collection backlash grows as Environment Secretary Steve Reed says he wouldn't be happy

The Cabinet minister suggested residents could vote out councils switching to monthly bin collections

Evening Standard

Chagos deal row: Minister denies UK spending £18billion as PM 'faces mini-revolt'

Environment Secretary Steve Reed said that figures being reported are ‘not correct’, but could not say what the final cost of the deal would be

Evening Standard

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

UK shoots down Trump’s plan to take control of Gaza and backs return of Palestinians

In a rebuke to the US president, a member of Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet backed a two-state solution to the conflict and said Israel should exist alongside ‘a free and viable Palestinian state’

The Independent UK

UK says ‘Palestinians must be able to return home’ after Trump comments

Both Labour and the Conservatives declined to offer a ‘running commentary’ on the US leader’s remarks.

Evening Standard

Reed seeks to reassure farmers as forecasts show 9% farmland shift for net zero

To meet environmental and climate targets, the Government predicts that 1.6 million hectares of England’s land may need to change its use by 2050.

Evening Standard

Farmland in England to be reduced by more than 10% under government plans

Grassland for livestock faces largest cut, so people will be encouraged to eat less meat, says environment secretary

The Guardian - UK

Labour land grab for housing and solar poses fresh blow for farmers

Proposals likely to see pushback from farming sector, just months after inheritance tax changes to family farms

The Independent UK

Government launches plans to find land for food, housing, nature and energy

Environment Secretary Steve Reed will set out proposals for the long-awaited land use framework on Friday.

Evening Standard

Plan to jail water bosses who block watchdog probes moves closer to becoming law

The Water (Special Measures) Bill passed its third reading unopposed, and has now reached the final stages of its passage through Parliament.

Evening Standard

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Water firm river pollution fines must be spent on rivers, MPs to say

Lib Dem Tim Farron seeks law to protect fund as Treasury tries to take control of £11m

The Guardian - UK

Environment secretary lambasts HS2’s £100m bat shelter

Steve Reed says plans for 1km curved structure to protect bats from high-speed railway are ‘batshit crazy’

The Independent UK

Any plans to expand Heathrow would look at ‘mitigations’ – Cabinet minister

Evening Standard

Planning system must protect nature, Government warned as it unveils reforms

Ministers have set out plans to speed up infrastructure development by changing rules on meeting environmental obligations.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Labour strips environmental watchdogs’ powers to block building projects

In the government’s latest push to grow the economy, regulators will no longer be able to demand developers mitigate the environmental impact of new buildings before they can be constructed

The Independent UK

Tories accuse Angela Rayner of asking civil servants to help her move house in breach of ministerial code

Tories target deputy prime minister over where she lives again, with claims she instructed officials to help with transport and cleaning

The Guardian - UK

No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’

Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy through

The Guardian - UK

Ministers to appeal against river pollution ruling won by Yorkshire anglers

High court had ruled government was not meeting legal duty to clean up Costa Beck near Pickering

The Independent UK

Farming industry ‘destroyed’ by lack of government support, say protesters

Kurt Morton, 39, drove in a rally of dozens of tractors on Friday morning to protest against changes to inheritance tax rules for farmers.

The Guardian - UK

Muskmania couldn’t save Steve Reed from the farmers, or himself

The environment secretary tried in vain to explain to protesters that they weren’t angry about tax, but Tory neglect

The Independent UK

Environment secretary drowned out by Tractor Tax protests as farmers condemn ‘rubbish’ reforms

Angry farmers blast horns outside the Oxford Farming Conference in new bid to stop death tax levy on farms

1 … 15 16 17 18

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Environment Agency

Wildlife and Countryside Link

23 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.