A Govian Knot

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Michael Gove mounted a strong defence of the government's not quite state of climate emergency - but the contradictions at the heart of the Conservative's climate policy remain

Michael Gove is deservedly renowned as one of Parliament's more eloquent performers, but even he struggled to spin the argument that we face a climate emergency, but that does not necessarily mean we should...

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