SOUTHEND’S Liberal Democrats have written to two Tory MP’s urging them to support a bill in Parliament.

Carole Mulroney, the leader of the group, has penned a letter to James Duddridge, MP for Rochford and Southend East, and Sir David Amess, MP for Southend West.

She is urging the pair to back the Queen’s Speech, which will allow the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill to be debated in Parliament.

In the letter, she wrote: “A CEE bill is a response to the need for stronger, more joined up legislation to tackle the climate and nature emergency.

“It is the only proposed legislative plan that addresses the interconnections between the climate, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.

“It recognises that if we succeed in reaching net zero in a reasonable timescale without addressing these wider issues, we will not solve the climate emergency or prevent the Earth’s systems from breaking down.”

The Lib Dem leader has urged the two MP’s to add their names to the list of their colleagues who have signed the amendment to bring the bill to Parliament.

The letter continues: “The scale and scope of our ambition must match the historic challenge that we face.

“As it stands, current legislation is not in line with the latest science, and the Government’s proposed legislation is in danger of being too week to bring about necessary change. We are falling short.

“The Government’s net zero target gives us just a ‘greater than 50 per cent’ chance of remaining with Paris compliant global temperatures, and that’s if the whole World does the same.

“The crisis of our natural World requires a commensurate response.”