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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Savage Media editor

Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch
The Conservative party leader, Kemi Badenoch, wrote her own column for the Telegraph last week defending her approach to net zero. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

“Nobody can deny that the UK is getting warmer and high temperatures are becoming a clear threat to homes, nature and food security,” read the lengthy news report, which explored the devastating effect of British wildfires on families in recent years.

The article’s conclusions, written after the wildfires in Suffolk last week, were no surprise given the UK’s changing climate. However, the fact that the piece appeared in the Telegraph, the rightwing title that has been a leading critic of green policies, did raise eyebrows among some readers.

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