LORD Chancellor Alex Chalk has backed the GB News campaign to protect the legal status of cash as legal tender.
Asked if he backed the Don’t Kill Cash campaign, he told GB News: “Yes, absolutely. I’m aware of this GB News campaign and I think you’re absolutely right on this because there are some communities for whom cash remains extremely important…and access to cash is something that we’re absolutely committed to try to retain.
“So just because plenty of people are moving digitally, that doesn’t mean that people should be left behind or somehow stigmatised because they want to continue using cash, so that’s opposition.”
In a discussion with Stephen Dixon and Ellie Costello, he suggested that there may be room for compromise on green targets.
He said: “We are absolutely committed to our green targets, that’s fine, the 2030 [ban on] vehicles and so on, but we are going to do so in a way that is proportionate and that is pragmatic.
“So when, for example, it comes to issues about whether we should have drilling licences in the North Sea, it’s absolutely right. We should do that not just for energy security, but because by the way, it is a greener thing to do…
“We’re committed to the targets but we are going to do so in a way that is proportionate and it takes account of the cost of living pressures that people are under.”
On the Government’s crackdown on corrupt immigration lawyers, he said: “I’m a barrister by background and for the overwhelming majority of lawyers who do the right, thing they want to absolutely make sure that crooked lawyers are rooted out…there’s been life imprisonment for those who aid and abet illegal migration for many, many years.
“And yes, I’m absolutely comfortable that those who breached their professional duties, who act illegally, should be convicted, punished and disgraced. I’m entirely comfortable with that.”
