Zac Goldsmith was on Newsnight tonight discussing the government's plans to use nuclear energy to address climate change. He was debating with Tom Burke who was rational and practical, Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary who was, almost literally, barking, and some guy representing the electricity producers, who did his job perfectly well, but added little to the debate.
Goldsmith was superb, as he usually is. Surely if the Conservative party has a future he, and others like him (if there are any), rather than David Cameron and George Osborne, are it.
Goldsmith is standing against Susan Kramer at Richmond in the next general election. It's weird to think that if I lived in Richmond, I'd be struggling to decide whether to vote for a Lib-Dem or a Tory. The world is definitely changing.
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