Party manifesto proposals take shape
Conservatives
Positioning themselves as a low-tax, low-regulation party, the Tories scarcely mention the environment in their pre-manifesto document.A detailed document on environment, transport and the regions has emerged from Labour's national policy forum and was endorsed at the party conference in September. Several important proposals stem from the work of the Labour environmental campaign group, SERA.The party proposes to peg fuel duty to inflation for the next five years. Other measures include: