Oliver Letwin, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, has repudiated the decision of John Gummer, former Tory environment secretary, to introduce Britain's first green tax in 1994. He also pledged the party to fight any new green taxes introduced by a future Labour government. Mr Letwin said he was against the government using green taxes to raise revenue for the exchequer. The Tories are strongly committed to recycling and unlike Labour believe that there should be a moratorium on the building of new incinerators.
Most people believe that the landfill tax has been a success.