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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Strip climate sceptic thinktank of charitable status, MPs urge

Labour MP Clive Lewis
Labour’s Clive Lewis is one of the MPs supporting the complaint that the Global Warming Policy Foundation may be in breach of its duties over use of charitable funds. Photograph: Andres Pantoja/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

A cross-party group of MPs has joined calls for a climate sceptic thinktank to be stripped of its charitable status.

The complaint, which is also being supported by the Good Law Project, claims the Global Warming Policy Foundation does not meet its aims as a charity and is in fact a lobbying organisation.

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