Planning bill will ‘push public towards Reform’: Labour’s Chris Hinchliff on standing up for nature

Chris Hinchliff said some Labour colleagues had come on board with his campaign, and there could be a sizeable group of rebels. Photograph: House of Commons

Keir Starmer’s planning bill will “push the public towards Reform”, a Labour MP has said as he urges his colleagues to back amendments to the legislation.

Chris Hinchliff, MP for North East Hertfordshire, has submitted a package of amendments to the bill, which as it stands, lets developers “pay cash to trash nature”, he said. These will be debated in parliament during the report stage in early June.