Leading Article: Labour Is Right to Be Nervous of Its Record ; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

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While the Blairs sun themselves in Egypt, and the Government dozes, the Tories are busy. Mr Blair's opposite number, David Cameron, has used the Prime Minister's holiday to pull off one Christmas coup after another. Hot on the heels of the media-savvy decision to lure Bob Geldof on to the Tories' commission on global poverty " unusual territory for them " Mr Cameron has set his sights on another fortress in the Labour camp: the environment. In the new year he is to deliver a keynote address at the 60th anniversary of the Soil Association, an organisation close to the organic food lobby.

Whether this new interest in green matters marks a change of heart in the party of …