No-one should be playing party politics with the nutrient neutrality issue. It’s difficult. It needs to be fixed. This is a quick post just to try to head off some of the comments that I have seen on social media because the urgent need for a solution is in danger of being subsumed by general scepticism of this government, exacerbated by the way that water companies have been allowed to fail in relation to water supply and sewage discharges. I write this on the back of Nicola Gooch’s excellent blog post this morning, LURB Watch: Government confirms Nitrates’ amendments to be tabled in House of Lords shortly but since then we now have the proposed amendments to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill (LURB).

First of all, the basics: