Tories call Burnham ‘too chicken’ to approve new oil and gas fields

Rhiannon James and David Lynch, Press Association Political Staff Andy Burnham is “too chicken” to approve the controversial Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields, the Tories have claimed. Production had been approved by the previous Conservative government, but those decisions were quashed after a legal challenge by Greenpeace, leaving Labour ministers to decide whether…