Strictest targets pledged to tackle England sewage discharges

Jim McMahon, Labour’s environment, food and rural affairs spokesman, said: “Instead of governing it’s clear that the Conservatives have taken up writing fiction, as this document is neither a plan, nor does it eliminate sewage dumping into our natural environment. Under the government’s weak improvement ‘target’, based on last year’s data, we’d face another 4.8 million sewage spill events in our country between now and 2035.