Responding to news that the government has been ordered back to the high court to explain its last-minute bid to delay publication of the UK’s clean air plan, Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for the South West, said:

“I welcome the fact the High Court has called in the government to account for their shocking disregard of the UK’s legal and moral obligation to take action on air pollution. This is a public health issue, not a political one and it is outrageous the Tories are using the general election as an excuse to put the brakes on taking action.