At about 2.30pm today, the Prime Minister will address the Conservative party conference. 

This marks the end to the conference season (no doubt to the relief of many, including the RSPB's hardworking but knackered parliamentary team who have been on the road for three weeks).

But it is also a moment for the Prime Minister to reflect on his government’s performance and renew his commitment to his own personal mission.  In many ways, this is about as close as we get to a State of the Union address.

So what would you like him to say on the environment?

Do you want him to side with Francis Maude, who believes that opposition to planning reforms is “***” (apologies for quoting verbatim) or perhaps with George Osborne who this week bemoaned “the decades of environmental laws and regulations”.

Or, perhaps more likely, you’d like him to side with Caroline Spelman who argued that it was a moral imperative to go green, and with the much beleaguered, but ever resilient, Greg Clark who said yesterday that “we are stewards of a matchless countryside.  We want our children – and their children – to be as proud of it as we are.  And believe me, there is no charity, no campaign, no concerned citizen who feels more strongly about cherishing our countryside than we do.”

As for me, I’d like him to

- Acknowledge that we face an ecological crisis as well as an economic one

- Say that the UK does want to lead the world to a low Carbon economy

- That the UK Natural Ecosystem Assessment was right - if we continue with business as usual, we shall sell ourselves and our children short

- Celebrate the commitment his government made in the Natural Environment White Paper and restate the commitment outlined in the England Biodiversity Strategy to prevent extinctions of known threatened species

But I would also like him to admit that

- They need to redraft the National Planning Policy Framework so that environmental protection is strengthened rather than weakened

- Much more needs to be done to halt the loss of the millions of species on which we share this planet – from rapid roll out of Marine Protected Areas through to reform of the Common Agriculture Policy and contributing to the fight to halt tropical deforestation.

- And, perhaps most importantly, to say that the government needs to up its game considerably if it wants to be regarded as the greenest ever.

What about you?  What would you like him to say in his speech?  ,The clock is ticking…