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Jill Rutter, senior fellow at thinktank the Institute for Government (IfG): “One of the defining features of climate policy to date in the UK has been the political consensus that has underpinned it. That may have been because Margaret Thatcher was the first leading world politician to draw attention to climate change in 1989 [via a speech at the UN in New York].”
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Jill Rutter, senior fellow at thinktank the Institute for Government (IfG): “One of the defining features of climate policy to date in the UK has been the political consensus that has underpinned it. That may have been because Margaret Thatcher was the first leading world politician to draw attention to climate change in 1989 [via a speech at the UN in New York].”
#Environment #Conservatives #Conservative #Tory #Tories #politics #ukpol #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
Jill Rutter: "David Cameron embraced the Friends of the Earth ‘Big Ask’ campaign as part of his moves to detoxify the Conservative party after its 2005 defeat. Theresa May then increased the target [in 2019] from 80% to net-zero as part of her legacy. It is that long Conservative inheritance on climate action that Badenoch is now rejecting.”
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what-the-climate-change-act-does-and-does-not-mean-for-the-uk/
#Environment #Conservatives #Conservative #Tory #Tories #politics #ukpol #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #KemiBadenoch #Badenoch
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