Unlike Jacob Rees-Mogg, Britain won’t take fracking lying down | Letter

Caroline Lucas responds to the business secretary's claim that only she and the socialists' do not support his plans

If Jacob Rees-Mogg really believes that the only people who don't like fracking are the socialists and Caroline Lucas", he's clearly not been paying attention (Rees-Mogg tells Tories he'd welcome fracking in his back garden, 3 October)

This may come as no surprise since, until recently, his most memorable position on the green benches at Westminster has been horizontal. But if he couldn't see the large numbers of his own party's backbench MPs queueing up to voice their outrage at his proposal to restart fracking when he made his announcement a few weeks ago then he should certainly have been able to hear them.