Labour peer aims to get the wind up his party

 
14 May 2013

Lord Lawson is not the only peer to break ranks with his party. Lord Donoughue, a top adviser in the Seventies to Harold Wilson and James Callaghan and later a minister of farming and food under Tony Blair, says he’ll be speaking out today in the House of Lords against Labour’s policy on renewable energy.

“I’m going to speak out against wind farms,” he says. “They are a tax on the poor in favour of the rich. I think you’ll find I’m the first Labour politician to say this.”

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