I’ll tell you who I got to pay attention to it: Stephen Miller. I’d met Stephen and Sergio Gor, who are now huge players in ...

This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘Growth – and damn the consequences?’ Lucy Fisher Growth has been the big theme of the week. Are you optimi ...

Nature campaigners and wildlife lovers have criticised chancellor Rachel Reeves after she said developers would “not need to worry about bats and newts” in her bid to ramp up growth in the UK economy.

Developers need not “worry about bats and newts” before they start building, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said in a speech that outlined her plans to reform the UK’s planning process.

She said the government was enabling developers to "focus on getting things built and stop worrying over the bats and the newts". Designers of the rail project say they have already gone out of ...

The Chancellor unfairly called out “bats and newts” as the villains getting in the way of Britain’s ability to build new homes and infrastructure, as she outlined further economic growth plans for the ...

A recent study published in the open-access journal African Invertebrates provides insights into the life history and ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

The Prime Minister and the Housing Secretary suggest that we need to prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy – but this is a false choice. More homes are badly needed for families and ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves promises developers they will no longer need to worry about “the bats and the newts” when they plan more houses. She said housebuilders will be asked to pay into ‘a nature ...