Foreign Office minister stands down and accuses government of ‘apathy’ over issues relating to climate and environment
Humane Society International/UK, an animal protection organisation, has paid tribute to Zac Goldsmith. Clare Bass, its director of campaigns and public affairs, said:
Animals have lost a true champion in parliament today. We’re grateful to Lord Goldsmith for everything he’s done as a minister to protect animals and the environment. We hope this loss serves as a major wake-up call for the prime minister that there are only so many broken promises the country, and his own party, will take.
Exactly this. There was only ever going to be one outcome and the evidence was totally irrelevant to it.
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