Baroness Featherstone: Energy and climate change is at the top of the Lib Dem agenda

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Green agenda is "in our DNA", Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone tells BusinessGreen

It's been a tough few years for the Liberal Democrats. After acting at the helm of energy and climate change policy for five years as part of the Tory-led coalition government, they moved to seeing the...

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