Green Brexit? Iain Duncan Smith calls for carbon floor price to be scrapped

Madeleine Cuff
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Leading Brexiteer proposes axing the carbon floor price post Brexit as part of wider 'reform' of climate change policy

The UK should use its exit from the EU to "reform" climate change policy, starting with the scrapping of the carbon floor price, according to senior Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith. Writing in The...

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