Chris Huhne has gone nuclear. Mr Huhne used to say: "Ministers must stop the side-show of new nuclear power stations now." But in those days Mr Huhne was a Liberal Democrat opposition spokesman, which meant he thought we could cut our emissions by relying on wind, wave and tidal power, together with carbon capture and storage.

Energy Secretary Chris Huhne today outlined a series of measures to improve energy efficiency, boost renewables and allow new nuclear projects to go ahead as he laid out the Government's energy policy.

The exposure of Chris Huhne’s affair could end up affecting the way the Coalition develops. At the last election, Huhne held his seats thanks to the loaned votes of Labour supporters; his literature emphasised how in Eastleigh the only way to keep the Tories out was to vote for him. His majority is 3,864 and the Labour vote there fell by 5,085. Once Huhne went into government with the Tories...

The new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne sets out the nuclear compromise between the Tories and the Lib Dems.

Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne, has attacked Labour and the Conservatives for competing to sound tough on crime, rather than actually reducing crime through better policing. Chris began: "Conference, there is a Tory and Labour conspiracy on crime. Both are guilty of putting forward measures to tackle crime that are ineffective or even counter-productive. "These parties are not...

Yesterday’s Independent on Sunday carried an editorial devoted to the energy secretary, Chris Huhne. While acknowledging that Huhne has had some personal difficulties over the past few weeks, the newspaper praises him for the (often unnoticed) work he has been doing to realise this government’s ambition to be the greenest ever. And, considering he’s only

A new generation of nuclear power stations will go ahead on eight sites in Britain, Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary, is expected to announce this week.

A new generation of nuclear power plants will still be built - provided no public money is spent on them, says Energy Secretary Chris Huhne.

The Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Chris Huhne would be asked to return to Government if he clears his name over speeding allegations.

While Energy Secretary Chris Huhne is at the fore of efforts in the European Council to raise EU ambitions for reducing CO2 emissions, Conservative MEPs are refusing to back the Government’s position, and look set this week instead to demonstrate their real views about efforts to curb global warming. At issue is a vote due