The abrupt sacking of her chancellor and junking of her financial coverage has ripped the center out of Liz Truss’s sprint for progress and left her premiership getting ready to full failure. However no less than one facet of her progress agenda stays in place: the harnessing of Britain’s pure panorama to extend productiveness.
As Sandra Laville tells Michael Safi, there’s the tip of the ban on fracking, the “sunsetting” of greater than 500 EU environmental protections and the designation of “funding zones” during which campaigners concern that builders could have precedence over birdlife.
It’s not simply nature teams and inexperienced charities which are livid: it’s the prime minister’s pure Tory allies, too. As Julian Glover explains, there’s a wealthy historical past of conservationism inside the Conservative occasion however that legacy is at risk of turning into as broken as their repute for financial prudence.
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