David Cameron poised to step into MEP climate target row

Senior Tory MPs in dialogue with MEPs who are seeking to prevent a toughening of Europe’s climate targets • The bloody fight for the green soul of the Conservative party David Cameron has promised to intervene in the intensifying row over rebel Tory MEPs who are trying to prevent a toughening of Europe’s climate targets. At prime minister’s questions, he told MPs that Downing Street enforcers would be talking to the MEPs who are threatening to revolt in a Brussels vote to raise the EU carbon cutting target from 20% to 30% of emissions by 2020. The rebellion threatens to dent the green credentials of the prime minister and the coalition. Senior Tory ministers told the Guardian they were “in dialogue” with their colleagues in the European parliament. The energy minister, Charles Hendry, said: “It is clearly

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