Liz Truss: 'My ambition is for Britain to have the best natural environment anywhere'

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Liz Truss' Open Environment speech - in full

Welcome to Defra and thanks very much for coming. My parents instilled in me from an early age a passion for the environment. They practised what they preached. Ours was a recycling, jumpers-not-heating...

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