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Lord Goldsmith: Is a green backlash reshaping politics?

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The UK's Resignation Letter

I've been horrified as bit by bit we have abandoned key commitments. Our efforts on a wide range of domestic environmental issues have simply ground to a standstill. I was the minister who looked through these figures day in day out. And I know as every single person in the foreign and Commonwealth office knows that we are not going to meet that target. No civil service would ever come on this programme and tell you that we're going to meet 11.6. They will tell you the opposite or they'll say nothing at all as civil servants are. So they're lying. Your contention is the government is lying. A lie implies they know what they're doing, it's perfectly possible that number

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