Adam Barnett is DeSmog’s UK News Reporter. He is a former Staff Writer at Left Foot Forward and BBC Local Democracy Reporter.
Farage’s latest chairman is a TV presenter who has attacked climate “madness” and called for the ban on fracking to be lifted.
Newly in power, Nigel Farage’s party is testing its anti-climate playbook.
Nigel Farage’s “economically illiterate” climate policies could wipe £92 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 Farage’s mayors have this week backed clean energy projects, seemingly at odds with the party’s anti-climate stance.
Lord Offord presented a report by Kathryn Porter, which has been criticised for giving a “misleading picture” of clean energy costs.
The U.S. private equity firm KKR contributed to the president’s swearing-in ceremony.
Despite widespread public support for clean energy and climate action, Nigel Farage’s party is running on an aggressively anti-net zero ticket.
The would-be mayor has claimed that carbon dioxide “is not pollution”.
Warren Stephens made the donation alongside big tech firms and oil giants.
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