Conservative candidate dominates at climate hustings

8th April 2024

Conservative candidate for Enfield and Haringey Calum McGillivray attended  a climate hustings organised by Friends of the Earth in Wood Green on Monday night. 

Calum McGillivray said a Tory mayor would invest more in electric buses and tackling pollution hotspots, including on the underground. He would work to protect the Green Belt, and criticised the government for allowing housing to be built on greenfield sites when brownfield would be better for the environment, and for not ensuring new housing is energy efficient. McGillivray also called on government to provide more subsidies for heat pumps, and for farming, to help improve food security.

Calum summed up the spirit of the meeting when he said: “We all share aims of tackling climate change and improving nature, but we differ over the means to achieve it.”

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