New legal duty promised over sewage as Lords forces issueon October 26, 2021 at 6:32 pm

The government says it will make utilities take action over waste dumped in rivers after pressure from peers.

But Labour’s shadow environment secretary, Luke Pollard, said the “screeching u-turn” on the issue due to the public backlash would “do little to convince the public that the health of our rivers, rather than the health of Conservative polling, is at the forefront of ministers’ minds”.