Green watchdog: Commons approves government concession amendment

Madeleine Cuff
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Environmental watchdog will now be given more 'teeth' to police UK green standards post-Brexit

MPs in the House of Commons last night passed an amendment to the government's key Brexit legislation that will grant the UK's proposed new environmental watchdog increased powers. The amendment, tabled...

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