The Politics of Climate Change

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Cities across the UK, across the world are going to have to deal with this poisonous air. The British public is pretty strongly supportive of stronger action on climate change. And actually there's not very many other examples apart from the U-LES where the costs are going to be so directly felt by voters in the next few years.

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