'A market-led, conservative plan': Green Tories publish alternative climate strategy

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Kemi Badenoch Credit: Edward Massey / CCHQ
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Kemi Badenoch Credit: Edward Massey / CCHQ

Conservative Environment Network unveils paper that aims to inform Kemi Badenoch's policy review, following Party's controversial decision to ditch support for UK's net zero target

Kemi Badenoch may have declared reaching net zero emissions by 2050 is 'impossible', but she has also been at pains to present herself as a 'net zero sceptic' and not a 'climate sceptic'. That crucial...

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