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Lord Goldsmith: Is a green backlash reshaping politics?

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The Importance of Resigning From the Conservative Party

Boris Johnson is a man with numerous flaws and qualities. On his watch the issues that I care about are areas where we made huge progress. There has never been a Prime Minister of this country who's done more on the environment than Boris Johnson. Outside of my family it's the only thing I go about. Well why on earth then did you choose to resign when in the words of former Tory Minister your colleague Andrea Ledson she says it is so much easier to throw your toys out of the pram like you did? "Because I did four years as Minister. I got an enormous amount done in the last few months"

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