The clearest evidence that the government is failing to live up to its promises to protect our post-Brexit environment (Report, 9 March) can be found within the trade bill that ministers are currently pushing through parliament. The prime minister has said that she doesn’t want to weaken existing standards for the environment, nor for workers’ rights and animal welfare, but the trade bill gives ministers the ability to do exactly that through secondary legislation. My amendment to the bill would ensure that those standards become the foundation for future trade deals. We will know within the next two weeks whether the PM will back my amendment, or a version of it, or give free rein to the rightwing free-market types within the Conservative party who are happy to wreck the planet in the name of profit.
Jenny Jones
Green party, House of Lords
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