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'Greener Britain a better Britain'

By Andrew Thomas

Updated on 08 April 2009

In an interview with the Independent newspaper the prime minister promises a "green revolution".

Ahead of this month's budget, which, Gordon Brown says, will be environmentally friendly, he told the paper that a greener Britain was a better Britain.

Some of Brown's environmentally friendly policies include the mass introduction of electric cars on the roads and almost half a million jobs in the green sector.

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