'It is a very exciting industry to be in': Lord Barker on UK politics, Russia and net zero aluminium
Conservative peer and former Climate Change Minister is now on a mission to decarbonise the global aluminium sector at Russian giant EN+
He may have stepped down as a Conservative MP in 2015, before taking a leave of absence from the House of Lords in order to take up his role as chairman of Russian conglomerate EN+, but Lord Barker remains...
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