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Labour's Murad Qureshi argues that Mayor Boris Johnson's warnings over London's energy crunch glosses over his own failures on energy efficiency and green power

It's an oft-repeated mantra that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. So it came as a something of surprise that, during what is usually the quiet summer season in politics, London Mayor Boris...

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