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Plan to put solar panels on all new English homes could be scrapped | Solar power
Labour is considering making solar panels optional on new homes in England, after pressure from housebuilders, in a move that would weaken low-carbon regulations, the Guardian has learned.
Ministers are preparing to publish long-delayed regulations for new homes, known as the future homes standard, which would ensure that all newly built homes are low-carbon.
These rules should, according to experts and campaigners, include requirements that homes are not connected to the gas grid, are insulated to a high standard and can generate renewable energy.
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, promised a “rooftop revolution” in solar power soon after the election. Putting solar panels on new homes as standard is popular with about 80% of voters, according to polling.
But instead of requiring housebuilders to equip new homes with an adequate number of solar panels, which campaigners and clean energy experts were hoping for, current plans for the future homes standard are only to “encourage” builders to equip homes with some solar panels “where appropriate”.
A spokesperson for the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government told the Guardian: “Solar panels are a vital technology to help achieve our mission to deliver net zero. However, they may not be the best option for all new homes, for example those surrounded by trees or with lots of shade overhead. It is also crucial we set standards for new homes in a way that allows for future innovation and flexibility in technology and design, which is why the building regulations do not mandate one particular option.”
Experts said this was far weaker than the expected clear mandate to equip newbuilds with solar, and left gaping loopholes that would be exploited by housebuilders to ensure fewer new homes were equipped with solar power.
David Cowdrey, acting chief executive of the MCS Foundation, a charity that certifies solar installations, said: “The government’s apparent failure to require solar panels on all newbuilds is extremely disappointing, and represents an enormous missed opportunity. Installing solar panels on all newbuilds would not only reduce energy bills for homeowners, it would also massively contribute to net zero, with the potential to add as much as 4GW of clean, cheap electricity to the grid. Allowing loopholes with vague ‘encouragements’ to developers simply is not enough to meet the demands of net zero and make the most of the opportunity to get solar on roofs.”
Housebuilders have raised concerns about solar panels in submissions to the consultation on the future homes standard, which was conducted under the previous Conservative government and closed in March. Labour has not reopened the consultation, but instead has promised ministers will respond to it “in due course”.
Steve Turner, an executive director of the Home Builders Federation, told the Guardian that housebuilders had lobbied for “flexibility” to dispense with solar in favour of other low-carbon options, as not all house types or roof designs were suitable for solar panels.
“There are a range of options needed to meet the carbon efficiency requirements that builders will need to use depending on the location and construction arrangements on each development,” he said. “Solar is part of the solution but will not be appropriate in all situations.”
Experts pointed out that developers could avoid building houses to designs that were unsuitable for solar panels, that were shaded or that were not oriented to face the sun.
Jess Ralston, at the ECIU, an independent research organisation, said the real reason housebuilders objected to solar was the extra cost to them. “Putting solar panels on new homes is a no-brainer, but builders have the government over a barrel because of the target to build 1.5m new homes,” she said. “The issue is that the builders don’t want to pay for panels. But the public are fully behind putting solar on new homes.”
The extra cost of solar panels for new homes can be as little as £2,000 for an average house, but it costs much more to retrofit panels afterwards. Solar panels, along with other green technology, can substantially reduce the running costs for a house. A recent study from the MCS Foundation found that an average three-bedroom house with solar panels, battery storage, a heat pump and high-grade insulation would cost £1,340 a year less to run than one without.
Mike Childs, head of policy at Friends of the Earth, called on the government to reconsider. “The government mustn’t cave into housebuilding lobbying by allowing them to choose whether or not to fit solar panels on new homes. The industry has a long history of building substandard homes and campaigning against tougher rules,” he said.
He said that homeowners, and the UK’s efforts to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, would suffer. “Solar panels are cheap, cut energy bills and emissions, and contribute to meeting the UK’s climate targets – which are currently way off track,” he said. “Ministers should be standing up for the interests of households, not the profits of housebuilders.”
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Commonwealth heads of government to defy UK on reparatory justice
Commonwealth heads of government are preparing to defy the United Kingdom and agree plans to examine reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, the BBC has learned.
Downing Street insists the issue is not on the agenda for the summit of 56 Commonwealth countries, which begins in the Pacific island nation of Samoa on Friday.
But diplomatic sources said officials were negotiating an agreement to conduct further research and begin a “meaningful conversation” about an issue which could potentially leave the UK owing billions of pounds in reparations.
The current text of the draft summit communique – made known to the BBC – says: “Heads, noting calls for discussions on reparatory justice with regard to the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and chattel enslavement… agreed that the time has come for a meaningful, truthful and respectful conversation towards forging a common future based on equity.”
It says the heads of government would play “an active role in bringing about such inclusive conversations addressing these harms” and that they agreed “to prioritise and facilitate further and additional research on the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and chattel slavery that encourages and supports the conversations and informs a way forward”.
The text – which could still change once Commonwealth leaders arrive – has been hammered out by diplomats ahead of the summit. British officials succeeded in blocking a plan for an entirely separate declaration on the subject.
The UK did not want any language in the communique about reparatory justice, but at the moment it is having to accept it will include three full paragraphs setting out the Commonwealth’s detailed position.
Reparatory justice for slavery can come in many forms, including financial reparations, debt relief, an official apology, educational programmes, building museums, economic support, and public health assistance.
Officials from Caricom, the body that represents Caribbean countries, have sought to broaden the issue so that it encompasses not just the slave trade across the Atlantic but also the Pacific.
The draft communique says a majority of member states “share common historical experiences in relation to this abhorrent trade, chattel enslavement, the debilitation and dispossession of indigenous people”.
It also refers directly to practices known as “blackbirding”, where Pacific islanders were tricked or kidnapped into slave or cheap labour in colonies throughout the region.
Diplomats said the expectation now was that reparatory justice would be a central focus of the agenda for the next Commonwealth summit in two years’ time in the Caribbean, possibly Antigua and Barbuda.
In the run up to this year’s summit, there have been growing calls from Commonwealth leaders for the UK to apologise and make reparations worth trillions of pounds for the country’s historic role in the slave trade.
A report published last year by the University of West Indies – backed by Patrick Robinson, a judge who sits on the International Court of Justice – concluded the UK owed more than £18tn in reparations for its role in slavery in 14 Caribbean countries.
Last weekend the prime minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davis, used a visit by Foreign Office minister Baroness Chapman to tell her the fight for reparations was far from over.
According to the Bahamas government website, Mr Davis said: “The call for reparations is not simply about financial compensation. It is not about financial compensation.
“It is about recognising the enduring impact of centuries of exploitation and ensuring that the legacy of slavery is addressed with honesty and integrity.
“As Caribbean nations, we stand united in our demand for justice for generations who came before us and those of us who are still living with that brutal history.”
A UK government spokesperson said they would not comment on the leak to the BBC, but added: “Reparations are not on the agenda for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. The government’s position has not changed – we do not pay reparations.
“We are focused on using the summit at [the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting] to discuss the shared opportunities which we can unlock across the Commonwealth – including securing more economic growth.”
It is understood the Downing Street position – that reparatory justice is not on the agenda – while technically correct, has angered some Caribbean ministers when it was obvious that the issue would be discussed at the summit.
It is one of many issues that are not technically on the agenda but will still be addressed and discussed.
Sir Keir Starmer landed in Samoa late on Wednesday UK time, becoming the first sitting prime minister to visit a Pacific island nation.
Speaking to reporters en route, he said he wanted to discuss current challenges with Commonwealth leaders, especially climate change, rather than issues of the past.
“What they’re most interested in is, can we help them working with, for example, international financial institutions on the sorts of packages they need right now in relation to the challenges they’re facing,” he said.
“That’s where I’m going to put my focus – rather than what will end up being very, very long endless discussions about reparations on the past.
“Of course, slavery is abhorrent to everybody; the trade and the practice, there’s no question about that. But I think from my point of view… I’d rather roll up my sleeves and work with them on the current future-facing challenges than spend a lot of time on the past.”
King Charles arrived in Samoa for a four-day visit on Wednesday and is due to formally open the summit.
On a visit to Kenya last year, the King expressed the “greatest sorrow and regret” over the “wrongdoings” of the colonial era, but stopped short of issuing an apology, which would have required the agreement of ministers.
Some non-Caribbean countries are not unsympathetic towards the British position and want the summit to focus more on existing challenges – such as climate change, which is adversely affecting many Commonwealth countries, about half of whom are small island states.
But Caribbean countries seem determined to keep pressing the issue.
All three candidates hoping to be elected this weekend as the next secretary general of the Commonwealth – Shirley Botchwey of Ghana, Joshua Setipa of Lesotho and Mamadou Tangara of Gambia – have made clear they support reparatory justice.
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Disposable vapes to be banned from June, says government
The sale of disposable vapes will be banned in England from June next year, the government has confirmed.
Ministers say the move is intended to prevent environmental damage and protect children’s health.
Similar bans are expected to be introduced by the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
A ban was first announced in January by the previous government, but was not enacted before the general election.
Disposable vapes are difficult to recycle and typically end up landfill, where their batteries can leak harmful waste like battery acid, lithium, and mercury into the environment, the government said.
Batteries thrown into household waste also cause hundreds of fires in bin lorries and waste-processing centres every year.
The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) estimates almost five million single-use vapes were either littered or thrown into general waste each week last year, a nearly four-fold increase on the year before.
In 2022, vapes were discarded containing a total of more than 40 tonnes of lithium, enough to power 5,000 electric vehicles, it said.
Defra’s Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh, whose role focuses on reducing waste in the economy, said disposable vapes were “extremely wasteful and blight our towns and cities”.
“That is why we are banning single use vapes as we end this nation’s throwaway culture,” she said.
“This is the first step on the road to a circular economy, where we use resources for longer, reduce waste, accelerate the path to net-zero and create thousands of jobs across the country.”
It is already illegal to sell any vape to anyone under 18, but disposable vapes – often sold in smaller, more colourful packaging than refillable ones – are a “key driver behind the alarming rise in youth vaping”, the previous government said when it first set out its plan.
The number of people who vape without ever having smoked has also increased considerably over recent years, driven mostly by young adults.
Vaping is substantially less harmful than smoking, but it has not been around for long enough for its long-term risks to be known, according to the NHS.
Public Health Minister Andrew Gwynne said disposables had become the “product of choice for the majority of kids vaping today” and banning them would “reduce the appeal of vapes to children and keep them out of the hands of vulnerable young people”.
The government plans to introduce legislation to ban the sale of disposable vapes from 1 June 2025, allowing retailers time to sell their remaining stock.
The devolved governments have all announced an intention to bring in similar bans, and the UK government said it was working with them to align the dates on which the bans come into force.
The measure is separate from government plans to end smoking by banning the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after January 2009.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said on Monday a bill to enact that ban would be introduced to parliament before Christmas.
Responding to the original announcement of the ban on disposable vapes in January, the UK Vaping Industry Association said vapes had helped “millions of adults quit and stay off cigarettes” and that the plan would put children at risk by “turbocharging the black market”.
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No Labour wrongdoing in Kamala Harris campaign row, says ex-Tory minister | Labour
Labour did nothing wrong when party officials campaigned for Kamala Harris in the US election, a former Conservative minister has argued, after Downing Street faced fury from Donald Trump about the move.
Robert Buckland, who has also campaigned for Harris due to his distaste for Trump, said it appeared that Labour activists who knocked on doors had volunteered and covered their own expenses, which would not be a breach of US laws on overseas involvement in elections.
Trump’s campaign filed a legal complaint alleging that apparent efforts by Labour’s head of operations to organise volunteers amounted to “illegal foreign national contributions”, and hit out at what it called Keir Starmer’s “far-left” party.
After Starmer said he believed the row would not affect his relationship with Trump, Labour officials insisted that the party had no role in organising or funding staff who joined US campaigning efforts, and that such volunteering was by no means unusual.
The Trump legal letter, sent to the US Federal Election Commission in Washington, also complained about what it called “strategic meetings” at August’s Democratic national convention in Chicago between Harris’s team and Morgan McSweeney, now the prime minister’s chief of staff, and Matthew Doyle, Starmer’s communications director.
Labour officials said that the pair were at the event only as observers. The party paid for McSweeney to attend, and Doyle’s costs were covered by the Progressive Policy Institute thinktank.
Buckland, a former justice secretary, who stepped down as an MP at the general election, said a since deleted LinkedIn post by Labour’s head of operations offering to arrange housing for 100 current and former party officials campaigning for the Democrats in swing states was “unfortunate”.
However, he told the Guardian he did not see any sign of wrongdoing. “It doesn’t look like it to me,” he said. “If these individuals are going under their own steam, paying for their own flights and doing their own thing, and their accommodation is either they’re staying with friends or they’re paying for it, there’s not a problem. But they’ve played into the Trump-Vance campaign hands, and that press release was the sort of politicking that you’re going to see this close to an election.”
Starmer, speaking to reporters travelling with him to the Commonwealth summit in Samoa, said such volunteering had happened at “pretty much every [US] election”. He said: “They’re doing it in their spare time, they’re doing it as volunteers, they’re staying I think with other volunteers over there.”
Asked if it risked jeopardising his relationship with Trump if he becomes president again, Starmer said: “No. I spent time in New York with President Trump, had dinner with him, and my purpose in doing that was to make sure that between the two of us we established a good relationship, which we did.”
There was some muted criticism of the government from the Conservatives, although Oliver Dowden, the party’s deputy leader, did not raise it with Angela Rayner when she filled in for the absent Starmer at prime minister’s questions.
John Lamont, the shadow Scotland secretary, told BBC Radio 4 that Labour had created a “diplomatic car crash” that risked undermining relations with Trump.
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, told GB News that the LinkedIn post seemed to show a “very clear breach of American electoral law” and he did not believe the Labour staffers had covered their own costs.
Farage attended the Republican national convention in Milwaukee in July. His entry in the MPs’ register of interests says the near £33,000 costs for him and a staffer were paid for by a Thai-based British businessman, Christopher Harborne. Farage listed the purpose of the trip as “to support a friend who was almost killed and to represent Clacton [his constituency] on the world stage”.
The former prime minister Liz Truss also attended the event, although by then she was no longer an MP.
One Labour MP, Ruth Cadbury, used a holiday in September to campaign for Harris in New Hampshire, while no sitting Conservatives are known to have volunteered in the same way. Almost none have publicly endorsed Trump.
Buckland said this did not surprise him, calling Trump “not a Republican”. He said: “I think most Conservatives would identify themselves with Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower and George HW Bush, and even George W Bush, not this character.”
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Reeves to announce major change to fiscal rules releasing £50bn for spending | Economics
Rachel Reeves will announce at the International Monetary Fund a plan to change Britain’s debt rules that will open the door for the government to spend up to £50bn extra on infrastructure projects.
After weeks of speculation, the chancellor will confirm at the fund’s annual meetings in Washington on Thursday that next week’s budget will include a new method for assessing the UK’s debt position – a move that will permit the Treasury to borrow more for long-term capital investment.
The change to the debt rule will be welcomed by the IMF, which says spending on UK infrastructure projects should be ringfenced as the government seeks to repair the damage to the public finances caused by the pandemic and the cost of living crisis.
Reeves will not specify while in Washington which of the various debt measures under consideration has been chosen, but the Guardian has been told by a senior government source that she will target public sector net financial liabilities (PSNFL).
This yardstick – which will replace public sector net debt – will take into account all the government’s financial assets and liabilities, including student loans and equity stakes in private companies, as well as funded pension schemes. This would give the chancellor room to increase borrowing for investment in long-term infrastructure
Labour inherited a set of fiscal rules from Reeves’s predecessor, Jeremy Hunt, dictating that day-to-day spending be met by revenues and that debt as a share of the economy must be falling in the fifth year of forecasts produced by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
Hunt was only narrowly on course to meet his debt rule, by £8.9bn, after announcing large tax cuts despite spending pressures linked to Britain’s high debt servicing costs, ballooning demand on public services and weak economic growth.
Had Hunt adopted a PSNFL target in March, it would have added about £53bn to his borrowing headroom.
The Treasury has hinted that it would not initially take advantage of all the extra scope that a change to the debt rule would provide and would put “guard rails” in place to ensure investment projects deliver value for money. Sources said energy and transport projects would be a particular focus of capital spending in the budget.
Reeves will not go for the most radical rule change by adopting the public sector net worth (PSNW) measure, which also includes non-financial assets such as the road network, schools and hospitals, sources said.
The chancellor will say in the budget that the government’s main fiscal rule will be that day-to-day spending should be covered by tax receipts, with borrowing used only for capital spending. The Treasury says this will mean tax increases and spending cuts of up to £50bn.
Announcing the changes at the IMF will signal that the chancellor is keeping a traditionally conservative body on board with her plans, while aiming to win over the world’s most powerful finance ministers and central bankers.
The push to minimise any reaction in financial markets from a change in the fiscal rules stands in stark contrast to the approach of Liz Truss, who was directly challenged by the fund over her mini-budget in 2022.
A government source said that, while in Washington, the chancellor would explain why she thought a change to the debt rule was needed but that full details would be provided in the budget.
Speaking at a press conference to mark the latest release of the IMF’s Fiscal Monitor publication, Vítor Gaspar, director of its fiscal affairs department, said: “As in many other advanced economies, public investment [in the UK] as a percentage of GDP has been trending down.
“Challenges associated with the energy transition, new technologies, technological innovation and much else mean public investment is badly needed.
“The Fiscal Monitor emphasises that public investment should be protected in budgetary procedures that foster sound macroeconomic performance. The fact that that issue is very much at the centre of the debate in the UK right now is very much welcome.”
The IMF has steadily shifted its stance in recent years to favour government borrowing for investment in the right circumstances.
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Include gardens in new rules for UK housebuilders, green groups urge | Access to green space
Requirements for gardens and the planting of trees must be included in Labour’s planned new rules for housebuilders, green groups have said.
The government is drawing up its future homes standard for new developments and it is not yet clear what requirements there will be for green space.
Developers are currently subject to biodiversity net gain rules that mean they have to ensure there are more spaces for nature after a development is built than before construction commenced.
Gardening groups including the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) are now asking for rights to green spaces to be enshrined in the plans to boost housebuilding. Prof Alistair Griffiths, the RHS director of science, pointed to a study based on UK Biobank data that showed people with gardens tend to have lower mortality risks, lead healthier lives and be less stressed.
“If you have more green space or a garden, you will do more physical exercise and be more likely to meet NHS guidelines for physical exercise. One of the greatest challenges the government faces in terms of the health service is levels of obesity, so this is significant,” he said.
Clare Matterson, the RHS director general, said that including gardens with the 1.5m homes that the government has pledged to build could save the NHS money.
“Let’s completely flip back around and make sure the outside space is actually thought about as much as the inside space. It has so many benefits, cost-saving benefits, particularly to the NHS,” she said.
She added that homes on the market should have a garden performance certificate, like they have for insulation, to indicate the quality of the soil, the amount of water it stores, and the biodiversity.
“When you buy a house you get an energy performance certificate, you have ratings for all the white goods in the kitchen. How about having a garden performance certificate?
“Let’s allow people to make some really important choices and give an incentive for people who are selling homes to create really good gardens.”
Developers often plan to include gardens and green space but overspend on the construction of the homes and put concrete where plants should be. Wayne Grills, the chief executive of the British Association of Landscape Industries, urged Labour to include gardens in its plans.
“We can actually be in there advising the contractors that are there at the same time that construction is going on, rather than being allowed to come back and dig up that same piece of environment,” he said.
“And the second thing for me [is] making sure that the budget is there. So we certainly see some really good, specified schemes, but very often the building is overspent over time and then landscaping that goes around it is cut back in many cases.”
Griffiths said that in the medium-term future, the UK would have a climate much like that of Barcelona now, and would need more planting.
“If you look at car parks and if you look at housing estates and developments in this country, there are no trees and there is no shade. This is not the case in France, Barcelona [north-eastern Spain] and other countries, they have spaces designed for urban cooling,” he said.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: “The government recognises the importance of building high-quality housing, and our planning reforms set clear expectations to ensure new developments meet the standards required.
“This includes taking into account the national model design code, which makes clear that open spaces, including private outdoor spaces, contribute to the quality of a place and to people’s quality of life.”
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Labour donor Lord Alli committed minor breaches of Lords rules
Labour peer Lord Waheed Alli committed four minor breaches in his register of interests, a report has found.
The breaches are not related to previous revelations that Lord Alli paid for clothes for senior Labour figures, including Sir Keir Starmer, and allowed some of them to use his properties.
A House of Lords standards commissioner recommended Lord Alli apologise for failing to properly register his interests in a series of businesses and a charitable foundation.
In his apology letter to the Chair of the House of Lords Conduct Committee, the peer accepted the findings and vowed to “endeavour to follow the Code of Conduct at all times to prevent this from happening again”.
A complaint triggered an investigation into Labour donor Lord Alli, who was already facing scrutiny over his donations of clothes to senior politicians.
A report by the House of Lords Standards Commissioner found that Lord Alli improperly removed his controlling stake in Silvergate BP Bidco Limited, the media company behind CBeebies show Peter Rabbit, from the register.
Lord Alli sold part of the company to a Hollywood studio in 2019 and no longer benefited financially from his shares, but still maintained a controlling stake in the firm.
The commissioner found Lord Alli also failed to register that he was an unremunerated director of a firm in the British Virgin Islands tax-haven in time.
Lord Alli correctly registered his trusteeship of The Charlie Parsons Foundation but should also have included his position as an unremunerated director of the foundation, the commissioner found.
Lord Alli co-founded the charity, which focuses on investing in “new talent, new projects, and new business ideas” in the TV and entertainment industry.
In the report, the commissioner said: “While I consider each individual breach of the Code to be minor, I have found there to be four breaches in total, and have therefore recommended that Lord Alli write a letter of apology.”
In his letter to Conduct Committee chair Baroness Manningham-Buller, Lord Alli said: “I am writing to you today to offer my apology for my breach of conduct by not registering my interests correctly.
“I will endeavour to keep to the Code of Conduct at all times to avoid such circumstances again.”
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