Did David Cameron really sneer at "green crap" on energy bills?

James Murray
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Downing Street insists it does not recognise report that the prime minister was to "get rid of all the green crap" on energy bills, but work to roll back green levies is continuing

The growing hostility towards the green agenda at the top of the Conservative Party has apparently been laid bare this morning, with The Sun newspaper reporting that prime minister David Cameron has instructed...

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