Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran today said the government needs to undertake more action to “keep water safe”. In a debate on bathing water status for the river Thames in Oxford, the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon said “our rivers should be places of protected picturesque beauty, not low-cost avenues for getting rid of sewage and biodiversity”. Responding for the government, environment…
The under-secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Rebecca Pow says the anger over raw sewage deposits is part of a “social media storm [that] has been whipped up.” Luke Pollard, the shadow secretary of state for the environment, said: “Whipping their own MPs to vote against an amendment to end the routine discharge of…
