'Our fields shouldn't be full of solar panels': Truss vows to crackdown on renewables development

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Truss addresses the audience at the Exeter hustings

Latest Tory leadership race hustings sees favourite double down on support for domestic fossil fuel extraction

Conservative leadership candidate Liz Truss has fuelled concerns the UK's onshore renewables sector could face further barriers to development in the coming weeks, after the frontrunner to become the next...

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