31 July 2013
As Foreign Secretary, William Hague has had little to say about fracking. But now the dispute seems to have landed near his North Yorkshire constituency of Richmond, with comments made yesterday by Tory peer Lord Howell, who said fracking should take place in the “large, desolate and uninhabited areas” of the North-East.
Lord Howell, George Osborne’s father-in-law, was until recently Hague’s adviser on energy and resource security. So how will his intervention go down with Hague or North-East Tories such as Anne Mackintosh and Robert Goodwill? Perhaps they will tell him to mind his own fracking business.
