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Amber Rudd: 'I'm a Thatcherite when it comes to climate change'

Jessica Shankleman in New York

23 September 2014 •

In her first interview since joining the Department of Energy and Climate Change, Amber Rudd talks climate scepticism and business investment

For a first ministerial trip, the New York Climate Summit is hardly a bad gig. Conservative MP Amber Rudd has flown out three months after being handed the climate change and energy brief as hundreds of...

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