Adam Barnett is DeSmog’s UK News Reporter. He is a former Staff Writer at Left Foot Forward and BBC Local Democracy Reporter.
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.
The group plans to attract donations from U.S. backers allied to Donald Trump.
The multi-millionaire Brexit funder has claimed “CO2 and climate change is the ultimate hoax”.
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