MP says hour has come for clock change
An MP is calling on the government to synchronise the UK with continental time in a bid to give people an extra hour of light in the evenings.
Conservative MP Rebecca Harris will be championing a private members' bill today that would see the clocks turned back an hour permanently, giving the UK an extra hour of light in the evenings throughout winter.
Harris says her Daylight Saving Bill would help reduce crime and cut people's electricity bills, reduce carbon emissions, cut crime, cut road accidents, make people healthier and boost domestic tourism.
Harris told ePolitix.com: "Let's test the evidence. The government currently tells us what time we are going to be on and when to change the clocks, let's just check whether the government is telling us to do it the right way."
Britain has previously experimented with summertime throughout the year from 1968 until 1971, but complaints in Scotland halted the experiment.
Calls for change have been resisted in Scotland and northern England, with politicians there arguing darker mornings would endanger school children and make life harder for livestock farmers.
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