Labour's failure on fuel poverty

I give a huge welcome to news that Friends of the Earth have told the government to come up with a plan to tackle fuel poverty by Friday or face a judicial review.

Photo: Mists across Ruscombe Valley - and wow did the valley look wonderful this morning in sunshine and frost

I have watched in dismay as the failures by Government on this issue mount up - they started with such great intentions to abolish fuel poverty altogether yet we now we have more than 4.5 million households in fuel poverty - the highest since Labour has been in power - along with obscene excessive profits being made by power companies.

Worse still the government has proposed cutting the funding for the UK's only fuel poverty charity by a quarter. This is madness and will hit the poorest even harder. See local Green party news release here.