Are Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak on a climate collision course with the public?

Cecilia Keating
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Truss and Sunak are battling it out to demonstrate to Conservative viewers their distaste for onshore renewables - but will their contradictory stances on climate action ultimately prove their electoral and economic undoing?

As Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss engage in a bidding war on how best to restrict onshore clean energy development and ramp up domestic fossil fuel production as they attempt to appeal to Conservative Party...

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