Claire Coutinho was senior fellow at Policy Exchange, which drafted law to crack down on XR and other climate activists

Claire Coutinho, appointed minister for energy security and net zero this week, was a senior fellow to the opaquely funded right-wing Policy Exchange, a think tank that helped write the UK’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act after explicitly stating the government should pass legislation to target Extinction Rebellion (XR).

  • merridewEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It feels very similar to the dying days of the Major government.

    Hopefully this, too, will end in the Tories getting resoundingly booted from power.