Ed Miliband aims for cross-party coalition on climate change

Former Labour leader looks to build 'high-ambition coalition' to persuade government to change tack on environment

Ed Miliband has vowed to build a "high-ambition coalition" of UK businesses, trade unions and civic society to challenge the government's "backward" environmental policies.

The former Labour leader said the agreement reached at the UN climate talks in Paris this month provided a historic opportunity to tackle climate change. But he said time was running out.