The reverse Farage effect: How attempts to polarise the climate debate have 'not really borne fruit'

Stuart Stone
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Almost two thirds of Brits back net zero targets and the UK's clean energy push, despite attempts to stoke up opposition - is the 'climate backlash' in danger of being over-stated?

From President Trump's promises to "drill, baby, drill" and the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement to Nigel Farage's angry demands to axe net zero policies en route to a record electoral breakthrough,...

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