Liberal Democrats 'Three times as green' as other parties

10.00.00am BST (GMT +0100) Fri 14th Sep 2007

The Liberal Democrats have been voted the greenest of the three main political parties in an audit by Britain's environmental groups. The Liberal Democrats, regarded as the party with the most long-standing commitment to the environment, come out on top despite efforts by the two biggest parties to catch up. But today's report is bad news for David Cameron, who has made the environment a symbol of his attempt to change the image of the Conservative Party. Despite his efforts, the Tories are rated behind the two other parties. The report scored the parties on a traffic light system. Results: Liberal Democrat 3 Green, Labour 1 Green, Conservative 0 Green.

Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat Environmental spokesperson said "Liberal Democrats continue to set the green standard that other parties need to meet. We are three times as green as the Labour Party, and streets ahead of the Tories. We have an ambitious and realistic objective for a zero-carbon Britain, tackling carbon emissions from every part of the economy: transport, housing, offices and factories. Despite all their warm words, it is telling that the Tories fail to get a single green light. They are still divided between those like John Gummer who want to go green and those like John Redwood who do not. While the other parties may talk green, only the Lib Dems mean it."