Adam Barnett is DeSmog’s UK News Reporter. He is a former Staff Writer at Left Foot Forward and BBC Local Democracy Reporter.
Newly in power, Nigel Farageโs party is testing its anti-climate playbook.
Nigel Farageโs โeconomically illiterateโ climate policies could wipe ยฃ92 billion off the UK economy, according to the New Economics Foundation.
The right-wing multi-millionaire, who also owns The Spectator, called for the public broadcaster to be part-privatised at a Pharos Foundation event.
Two of Farageโs mayors have this week backed clean energy projects, seemingly at odds with the partyโs anti-climate stance.
Lord Offord presented a report by Kathryn Porter, which has been criticised for giving a โmisleading pictureโ of clean energy costs.
The U.S. private equity firm KKR contributed to the presidentโs swearing-in ceremony.
Despite widespread public support for clean energy and climate action, Nigel Farageโs party is running on an aggressively anti-net zero ticket.
The would-be mayor has claimed that carbon dioxide โis not pollutionโ.
Warren Stephens made the donation alongside big tech firms and oil giants.
The group plans to attract donations from U.S. backers allied to Donald Trump.
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