MPs react angrily as pension investment in fossil fuels confirmed

Madeleine Cuff
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For the first time Annual Report of the Parliamentary Pension Fund has published the fund's top 20 investments - and they include British American Tobacco, BP, Rio Tinto and Shell

Millions of pounds of MPs' pensions is invested in fossil fuel assets, mining giants, and tobacco firms, according to information made public for the first time today. For months a cross-party group...

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