Ed Miliband tore into David Cameron yesterday for giving up the fight against climate change, with the recent disastrous flooding the result.
The Labour leader said the winter storms should serve as a "wake up call."
Two people died on Friday - James Swinstead, a passenger on a cruise ship in the English Channel, and minicab driver Julie Sillitoe, whose car was hit by falling masonry in central London.
ALASTAIR BONNETT reports on the paradoxes of populist attitudes towards protection of the natural world
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT



