UKIP manifesto delivers climate sceptic wish-list

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Party confirms plans to scrap DECC, repeal Climate Change Act, and boost coal and fracking industries

UKIP has today confirmed plans to ditch the UK's decarbonisation agenda publishing a manifesto that pledges to repeal the Climate Change Act, scrap the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and...

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