Caroline Flint - Building a Green Economy speech, in full

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The present Chancellor believes that the green agenda is bad for business, bad for jobs and bad for growth

Speaking at an event hosted by the Aldersgate Group, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Caroline Flint, today outlined the opposition's plan for an active green industrial...

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