Alastair Campbell: 'Rishi Sunak is wrong - green politics is growth politics'

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Rishi Sunak made the wrong call on his green policy rollback - now Labour needs to punish him and show green politics is growth politics, argues Alastair Campbell in his speech at the Net Zero Festival 2022

Bill Clinton used to say he wished he had as much power as the member of a focus group in Detroit. I wish I was as powerful as one of the few hundred voters in the Uxbridge by-election who decided at...

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