Green shoots will also now divide the parties

Hot on the heals of the Heathrow announcenment comes the Tory proposals for a green future,no doubt timed to coincide with the Hoon announcement yesterday.

Peter Hoskin writing at Coffee House says that

After the Heathrow announcement yesterday, talk of a greener national infrastructure by the Tory leader is sure to irk a few Labour MPs, and could set the political dividing lines in his party's favour. What's more, the Tory policy idea - a £1 billion "investment" in what would apparently be a smarter, cleaner, more efficent National Grid - sounds like something that even the envirosceptics can sign up to; depending, of course, on where that £1 billion comes from.

So what is in the proposals?

David Cameron chose this morning's Guardian to give a lowdown on his thinking and at the head of them is

turning Britain's national grid into an online network in which consumers and suppliers will interact in a new process that will bring down prices and cut emissions.