John Selwyn Gummer, "burger pusher" / Green consultancy

[Mr Gus]

Well little cordelia turned out alright eh!?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/57766 ... l-25-years

Gummer now "lord Deben"

Company records show she is / was also a director of Sancroft, a consultancy company chaired by her father which specialises in environmental issues.

After standing down as an MP John Gummer became a member of the House of Lords in 2010 and is now Lord Deben.

Sancroft
https://sancroft.com/

14 year old news snippet:

"The News of the World accused the Tory MP John Gummer of paying £9,980 to the consultancy firm Sancroft, of which he is the founder and chairman, out of his parliamentary expenses. The former cabinet minister has already faced criticism for claiming £9,000 a year towards gardening work, including the removal of moles and jackdaw nests from his Suffolk property"

& I don't like linking to Daily fail, so here is a "."incomplete. link to an old (2019) page that linked him pushing renewables, whilst taking money for services from firms such as ev battery makers!? (apparantly) ..don't recall it myself, but different era.

https://www.dailymailco.uk/news/article ... esses.html

[Mr Gus]

My question about this EX mp is as to whether he is pro-green or merely serves a purpose by links made to government over the years (making it easier to grab work) & therefore convenient set up for him based on previous positions whether in govt or as a shadow back bencher?

(you'd like to think that folk advertising green work took an interest in it beyond a pocket enriching commodity)
Can anyone therefore enlighten me as to where he actually stands?

I don't think somehow that scrutinising a past voting record will be that helpful due to old party links because we know how "whips" & oiled mechanisms work regardless.

Who is he nowadays?

[AE-NMidlands]

I think he has seen the light, and is genuinely committed to decarbonising/net zero. https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... cy-attacks says

Labour urged to work with Tories to counter ‘ignorant’ climate policy attacks
Tory former minister and chair of Climate Change Committee condemns ‘absolutely unacceptable’ attacks on Labour stance
Labour should counter “absolutely unacceptable” and “ignorant” Conservative attacks on its climate policies by offering a cross-party consensus on climate action, to bring forward measures this parliament to meet net zero, the outgoing chair of the Climate Change Committee has urged.

Lord Deben, a former Tory environment secretary and minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, strongly criticised Grant Shapps and Suella Braverman, cabinet ministers who have led vitriolic attacks on Labour as “the political wing of Just Stop Oil”. He called on the government instead to heed the message of climate protesters.
“The government doesn’t seem to understand what it has done,” he said of ministers’ attacks. “That’s a much worse position [than hypocrisy]. We still get things like the absolutely unacceptable statement by Suella Braverman attacking the Labour party and talking about their very proper decision about not further expanding exploitation and extraction from the North Sea, and branding it as being outrageous and disgraceful.”
...
“The government doesn’t seem to understand what it has done,” he said of ministers’ attacks. “That’s a much worse position [than hypocrisy]. We still get things like the absolutely unacceptable statement by Suella Braverman attacking the Labour party and talking about their very proper decision about not further expanding exploitation and extraction from the North Sea, and branding it as being outrageous and disgraceful.”

Deben, who was known as John Gummer before he was made a peer in 2010, continued: “It is ignorant to say that. It is ignorant, not least, of their official advisers who have proposed exactly that [an end to new North Sea licences], and it has to be taken seriously. You may disagree with it, but it has to be taken seriously and not used as a kind of cheap political barb.”

Grant Shapps, the energy and net zero secretary, has also posted a series of videos on social media calling Labour the “political wing of Just Stop Oil” and ridiculing Keir Starmer’s stance on climate policy. Deben said these attacks were also “unacceptable”.
“I don’t think it is helpful to use the issues of climate change for party political purposes,” he said in an interview with the Guardian. “As chairman of the Climate Change Committee, I have stamped down every time that people tried to do that. I’ve been particularly tough with the Tories when they’ve tried to do that, because it’s just not acceptable.”

Deben left his position as chair of the CCC, the statutory committee that advises the government on the impact of its climate policies, earlier this month after a nine-month extension to his 10-year term. His successor is expected to be appointed in November, after an interim period in which Prof Piers Forster, a prominent climate scientist, will act as chair.
Deben called on Labour to provide more detail on its policies, and to react to Tory attacks by extending an offer of a cross-party consensus on climate issues. He suggested this could be based on a report published earlier this year by Chris Skidmore, a Tory former energy minister.
Skidmore, at the behest of Liz Truss while she was prime minister, compiled a report with 130 recommendations for ministers to put the UK on track to achieve net zero, but only a handful of his proposals have been taken up by the government.

“If I were leader of the Labour party at this moment, I know exactly what I’d do,” said Deben. “I would say to the current government: ‘Here is Mr Skidmore’s report, he is a Conservative ex-minister, he was asked to do this report to show how best to deliver net zero by Lis Truss. Now we will accept, if you put it forward, we will do the following basic things [acting on the report’s recommendations]. We will do that. We won’t oppose it. You put them forward, we’ll back it.’”

That's pretty outspoken for a tory peer, ex cabinet minister.

[Mr Gus]

Thanks AE, I was going to read that piece early this morning but went to sleep about 6.30 am & forgot about it, sods law he should be in that piece not long after I asked the question ...will read up tonight.