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Robert Colvile, the Sunday Times columnist and head of the Centre for Policy Studies thinktank, says he is baffled by Rishi Sunak’s pledge to ban onshore windfarms (see 9.17am) – because Tory voters are mostly in favour of them.
Colvile co-wrote the Conservative party manifesto in 2019 with Rachel Wolf. She also thinks the Sunak announcement is a mistake.
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