Chris Huhne's record as environment spokesman: what the polls say
Not surprisingly, the Liberal Democrats’ track-record on environment issues during Chris Huhne‘s time as our environment spokesman has come into the spotlight during the leadership election. That’s fair enough – judging people by their track-records. So how does Chris stack up?
Well – on the substance, very well – the Green Tax Switch policies were overwhelmingly supported by party conference and then set the standard which the other parties have slowly – achingly slowly – tried to emulate. And the Green Tax Switch campaign, including the week of street stalls around the country (watch my YouTube film here), was a great return to trying to running joined up national and local integrated campaigns.
But what about the impact on the public – have they noticed? Here’s what the MORI-IPSOS polls have been saying over the last few years. The graph shows how many people were saying they would vote Liberal Democrat at a general election – and also how many rated the Lib Dems the best party to tackle environmental issues:
Note that sharp increase in our environmental ratings at the end of the graph – the period when Chris has been our environment spokesman. After years of flat ratings, we finally bucked the trend after he started up in the post – and despite working against a background of our party ratings overall falling back a bit.
Of course, on all of these, people other than Chris deserve credit too. But he was the one leading the way – just as our next leader will work with others but also need to lead the way themselves.
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Let me guess, the party’s crime ratings don’t look so good by any chance???
I’ve decided not to publish an anonymous comment from someone that attacked with Chris with various rather vague insinuations.
Happy to have comments disagreeing with me or any person or cause I support – but not that sort of cowardly vague insinuation nonesense.
If you’ve got a decent point to make – make it!