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Reform UK candidates in this year’s local elections have been promoting an anti-climate, anti-net-zero agenda. In this post for the LSE British Politics and Policy Blog<\/strong>, Pallavi Sethi argues that this campaign goes directly against the interests of the local communities – communities directly exposed to the risks of climate change – that these Reform UK candidates seek to represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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