The onshore wind industry has achieved remarkable success, don’t wreck it on behest of backbenchers who hate the appearance of wind turbines
A government comes unexpectedly to power. Now it must implement brave manifesto commitments or risk backbench revolt. Those backbenchers are important to its 12-seat majority. The government is riding a tiger. And the tiger may get too hungry for an individual minister to dismount.
But a government has wider responsibilities – to investors in the UK, to the maintenance of jobs, to fairness and proportionality, and to the common wealth. Perhaps those manifesto commitments were a bit too brave? What to do?
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