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Climate protesters confront Kemi Badenoch at hustings
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch during the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Global Annual Conference 2024 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, June 27, 2024

FIVE protesters confronted Tory MP Kemi Badenoch at a hustings at St Mary’s Church in Saffron Walden on Tuesday over her connection with climate change deniers and polluters.

Hannah, an activist from Stop Polluting Politics who challenged Ms Badenoch, said that “climate breakdown is happening faster than ever. 

“Meanwhile politicians like Badenoch continue to stoke up division, schmooze at fancy dinners with lobbyists and hand out subsidies to fossil fuel companies. And why wouldn’t they, when it fills their own pockets with oily cash?

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