BBC News - Conservative conference: chancellor's credit-easing plan

At the Lib Dem conference Energy Secretary Chris Huhne denied to me in a BBC interview (and then to the conference) that the various green measures of which he is an enthusiast was helping drive up energy bills.

Indeed he claimed that his various energy-saving measures would actually cut bills over time. That is clearly not the Chancellor's view.

Mr Osborne acknowledged that green policies were "piling costs on the energy bills of households and companies". He went on to say that Britain should not be cutting carbon emissions any faster than the rest of the EU. At the moment we are trying to meet tougher targets than any other major European economy.

The Chancellor said he'd made it clear that the current energy review should reign in Britain's position as a green outlier.