Reiterates Tory plan for bonfire of planning & environmental protection rules and regulators. "When we are in charge, no one from natural England will turn up with a clipboard to count the bats and newts. It's time for us to build new nuclear and not worry about whether the fish can have discos."

As ever though, there are no policies or suggestions here that Kemi's conservatives want to do anything to reduce emissions or better adapt the country to climate change. She repeatedly stresses that climate change is real, but her actions suggest she doesn't actually view it as a risk or problem.

"We will drill in the North Sea, increase our tax revenues, and drive down energy prices. We need oil and gas. We need renewables. We need nuclear. We will build new small modular reactors because our mission is for cheap, clean, abundant energy."

She then feels need to tell audience that "climate change is real" but that "importing oil and gas from countries that drill it in a dirtier fashion actually increases our emissions". Fails to mention that North Sea does not have enough oil & gas remaining for UK to be anywhere near self sufficient

Having criticised onerous planning regulations and vowed to build a third Heathrow runway, she's now onto energy, arguing that "cheap energy is growth". "Countries that have expensive energy are poor, and Britain's energy is pretty much the most expensive in the world."

Claims Tories will cut deficit by £35bn. "Restoring confidence in public finances is essential to economic growth, but it's not just about that. It's about building up protection for a rainy day, leaving less of a mess for our children." She doesn't take this view on climate risk though it seems

On Brexit & UK's relationship with the EU, she appears to argue against changes to the status quo. (and doesn't appear to relish her memory of the 2016 referendum that her party called) "[Andy Burnham] wants to reopen the Brexit debate - can you imagine having to go through that again?"

"The world is becoming more dangerous. Western economies are becoming more fragile. We are running out of money and running out of time to put it right."

Other than tearing up environmental regulations, Griffiths makes no mention of tackling climate change or how the Conservatives would support the natural world. Britain's booming net zero economy and green industries - which are growing faster than UK as a whole - are not mentioned.

Referencing the packaging tax that he says the Conservatives will scrap, Griffiths is clear that the party is different from that of old: “It’s the sort of thing the old Conservative Party would have gone along with.”

Adds that Conservatives support building a third Heathrow runway (which of course they always have, and despite 14 years in government, still didn't make happen) "The Conservatives will do whatever it takes to end the delays & boost capacity by backing the third runways."

As trailed this morning, Griffiths promises to scrap the Climate Change Act - on top of previous Tory pledges to ditch climate and net zero targets. He argues, without citing evidence or examples, that UK climate legislation has all driven de-industrialisation without benefitting nature

After proposing numerous tax cuts, but less information on spending cuts that these would necessitate, he's now onto deregulation, including a promised end to corporate sustainability reporting. "No more regulatory imposed diversity targets or mandatory ESG reporting," he says

Under a Tory government he says: "We'll make further reductions on overseas aid, net zero subsidies, and government advertising, and we'll crack down on the healthcare tourism in the NHS and stop foreign abuse of the student loan system."

Griffiths is now finally speaking. Claims "Britain today is close to being a command economy" and that "we will inherit from Labour one of the worst economic situations in history". Slams Andy Burham's "socialist fever dream" that he argues will take Britain back to the 1970s.

Video of Claire Coutinho now playing, in which she is again suggesting policy costs for clean energy etc are almost entirely to blame for rising energy costs. The data shows it's largely soaring fossil costs that have caused bills to rise, & they'd be higher still without clean energy, however.