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).

  • merridew
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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.