Jeremy Corbyn joined Dame Vivienne Westwood at a protest in London last year to highlight the impact of climate change DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PALabour will ban fracking if it wins the next general election, the party is expected to tell its conference today, in a change of policy that could trigger a dispute with the unions. Jeremy Corbyn will use his increased mandate after winning the leadership contest at the weekend to signal that he wants to change his party’s position on the issue. Barry Gardiner, the shadow energy and climate change secretary, is expected to tell the party’s conference in Liverpool today that a Labour government would introduce an outright ban on the process of extracting gas from shale rock. This marks…

Source: The Times September 26, 2016 10:52 UTC