Drilling into decline: The flawed logic of Kemi Badenoch's oil gamble

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The Conservative leader's pledge to 'get all of our gas out of the North Sea' appears designed more for the politics of opposition than the realities of government, as it crumbles under scrutiny, writes Eliot Whittington from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has set out her plan to get "all our oil and gas out of the North Sea". It's just a shame that such an ideologically-driven policy would achieve little other than...

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