Amber Rudd, [the new Energy & Climate Change Secretary], pledged to keep pressuring the Big Six energy suppliers to cut their bills and to do her best to win over climate change sceptics – both in and outside her party. Ms Rudd admits the Conservative Party has an issue with climate change sceptics – although she insists that Labour harbours just as many MPs who are sceptical. She has set up a meeting with Lord Lawson, Britain’s most high-profile climate-change sceptic, as the first part of her campaign to win over the doubters. “I will be having a conversation with him. I’m hoping to win him over, so great is my ambition. But we will see.” --Tom Bawden, The Independent, 5 June 2015