Increasing ‘Green taxation’ has to be the right way forward for Britain. In particular, increased taxation of air transport is long overdue. The travelling behaviour of average Britons has in recent years dramatically changed. I am one of those Britons. I think nothing to popping on an airplane to wherever to watch the England football team. The true cost of such behaviour is never realised by me the customer. As Steve Norris recently pointed out:

We’ve now got a generation living in France, working three days a week here, [which] thinks nothing of going to Prague for a stag night.

The party is over. Airline travel costs. The Conservatives are right to address the problem.

And to those who worry about the politics of this, I would only say this – the party that is seen to deal with difficult environmental issues with initially unpopular policies will, if effective, reap long-term electoral benefits.