Just 6 per cent of top Conservative candidates give a stuff about 'reducing Britain's carbon footprint'

At last, some promising news about our likely next Government. Conservative Home has polled the 250 Tory candidates with the most winnable seats on their most important personal priorities in the next election. And guess what? Of the 19 suggested issues, "Reducing Britain's carbon footprint" came right at the bottom of their list.

The candidates were given a list of policy priorities and were asked to give each one of them a rating between 1 and 5, 1 meaning the goal would not be important to ...