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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason, Helena Horton and Patrick Greenfield

Rishi Sunak urged to heed criticism on climate after Zac Goldsmith quits

Zac Goldsmith
Zac Goldsmith said his resignation had been a long time coming because of Rishi Sunak’s ‘lethargic’ approach to the environment. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Rishi Sunak is embroiled in an extraordinary standoff with Zac Goldsmith after the Tory peer quit the government, accusing Sunak of being “simply uninterested” in the environment and the climate emergency.

Lord Goldsmith resigned as a Foreign Office minister with a highly personal attack, warning that voters would punish the prime minister at the polls for his “apathy in the face of the greatest challenge we have faced”.

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