Cabinet Office

Oliver Tickell: Ed Miliband must act on emissions cuts

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Oliver Tickell: Ed Miliband has got good advice from the Climate Change Committee on cutting emissions. Now he must act on it

Ed Miliband's Shadow Minister

Coventry Green Voice (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

David Cameron has named Greg Clark as the shadow minister for "Energy and Climate Change" ... Clark was the MP behind the Private Members Bill to stop gardens being defined as brownfield land. He is also a former director of policy (2001-2005) for the Conservatives. I don't remember any ideas about feed-in tariffs and microgeneration emerging at that time. His assistants are Greg Barker ( shadow minister...

• Cameron carries out mini shadow cabinet reshuffle - PinkNews.co.uk

Some advice for the new Energy and Climate Change Minister

Robert Kyriakides's Weblog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Gordon Brown’s reshuffle created a lot of headlines, mainly because he brought Mr Mandelson back into the Government fold, but the most important thing he announced was to create a Department of Energy and Climate Change and point the Secretary of State – in this case Ed Miliband – as a Minister with cabinet rank. For [...]

Plotters run up the white flag

Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tom Watson has emerged from the PLP meeting donwstairs to tell us what a success it was for Gordon Brown. According to his version, the most significant statement came from George Howarth, a top plotter, who told Mr Brown and...

Young Commons stars set to debate climate change

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Andrew Sparrow: The first climate change questions in the Commons should be worth watching. Three days after Gordon Brown appointed Ed Miliband to head the new department, David Cameron has promoted Greg Clark to shadow him

Greg Clark MP is new Shadow Climate Secretary

ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a very welcome appointment (one ConHome recommended) Greg Clark MP has been chosen to shadow Ed Miliband as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. Nick Hurd MP will replace Greg as Charities spokesman. That may be...

Greg Clark Promoted in Tory Reshuffle

Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'm delighted to learn that Greg Clark, my MP in Tunbridge Wells, has just been promoted to the Shadow Cabinet to take on Ed Miliband. Greg Barker and Charles Hendry will be Clark's junior spokesmen, while Nick Hurd replaces Clark on the charities brief. And that, ladies and gentlemen, may be it!

CauseWired Quote Of The Day

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday

My friend Tom Watson has written a book on "peer to peer philanthropy" called CauseWired . It's not yet out but you can pre-order it at that link. Tom gave me a preview of it and I am going to blog some quotes from it that relate to Donors Choose throughout the month of October as a cool way to remind readers of the Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge . Here's the first one: "I thought there must be...

• CauseWired Quote Of The Day - A VC

Climate change, the Labour government and the BBC

Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

I am getting really angry now, the moron Brown has decided to promote the oleaginous Ed Miliband to head a new department of Energy and Climate Change. This probably means the end of any remnant of sensible debate over energy provision in the UK and the last nail in the coffin of any pretence of debate over the matter of Climate Change. The BBC have covered the story with the headline "Greens welcome...

Hutton's move to MoD will clear way for greener agenda

The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008

Gordon Brown's Government will become greener as a result of his reshuffle. The promotion of his close ally Ed Miliband, to head a new Department of Energy and Climate Change, shows the Prime Minister is to put an increased priority on global warming.

Chuka Umunna: Watch now what Ed Miliband does

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

Chuka Umunna: Mandelson's return has made the headlines, but the real hope for Labour renewal may lie with the promotion of Ed Miliband

Mandelson 'good for UK business'

BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

Peter Mandelson's surprise return to the cabinet will be welcomed by UK business, Ed Miliband says.

Today: 0810 Gordon Brown's reshuffle

Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

In Gordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle, Peter Mandelson's return still dominates political debate. Ed Miliband, new secretary of state for energy and climate change, discusses his own move to the "front rank of politics".

Today: 0810 Gordon Brown's reshuffle 04 Oct 08

Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

In Gordon Brown's cabinet reshuffle, Peter Mandelson's return still dominates political debate. Ed Miliband, new secretary of state for energy and climate change, discusses his own move to the "front rank of politics".

Another Government website on its way

Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008

Given that Ed Miliband is now the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate CHange he's also going to need a new swanky website. This is going to be hosted at www.decc.gov.uk which was registered yesterday on behalf of the Government by British Telecom and I imagine the webbies of Whitehall are now working busily to produce something that meets the usual requirements. The domain has only been registered...