London Mayoral elections 2016: The green policy crib sheet

Madeleine Cuff
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As London prepares to go to the polls to choose its new mayor, we round up the main candidates' green policies, from pollution proposals to energy ambitions

Early on the in campaign for the London mayoralty, commentators were roundly predicting this would be the year that green issues would dominate. But despite bold proposals from all of the key candidates...

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