'You can have any realistic policy, as long as it's green': Michael Gove hits back at net zero critics

Michael Holder
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The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities once described himself as a ‘shy green’, but he’s far from shy about it now

"My view is that you can have any realistic policy solution to any of our problems today, as long as it's green - because every single one of them is." Those were the words of Michael Gove, Secretary...

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