From trees and oceans to rail and windfall taxes, Parties clash over green ambitions

James Murray
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From trees and oceans to rail and windfall taxes, Parties clash over green ambitions

All three main Parties spent the weekend talking up competing plans to accelerate tree-planting programmes, boost public transport, and launch a tax raid on oil industry profits

With the first wave of Party manifestos imminent it is already clear the UK is set for the greenest election in British history - a fact that was underlined over the weekend by another wave of ambitious...

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