Miliband claims the EU gives us clean beaches, air and water?
Déclaration
Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader, says that the EU can take the credit for cleaner beaches, water and air.
« Membership of the EU has cleaned up our beaches, improved our water supplies and without the EU we would not even be debating the silent killer that is air pollution. »
Erreur
Whilst it’s true that these issues are covered by EU laws, which have pushed for higher standards over time and that European rules are among the toughest in the world, it is difficult to say whether outside the EU ,Britain would have implemented its own laws on environmental issues, as some other countries have done.
And it’s surely going too far to say we wouldn’t even be discussing air pollution without the EU.
The Clean Air Act, for example, was passed in the UK in 1956, long before we joined the European Community.
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