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Tory MP Chris Skidmore Quits With Blast At Rishi Sunak Over ‘Climate Crisis’

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Chris Skidmore: “The climate crisis that we face is too important to politicise or to ignore.”
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Chris Skidmore: “The climate crisis that we face is too important to politicise or to ignore.”

Tory MP Chris Skidmore has said he will resign the Conservative whip and stand down as an MP “as soon as possible” as he blasted Rishi Sunak’s record on climate change.

The former energy minister triggers a by-election for his Kingswood seat in Gloucestershire as he quit in protest at plans to issue more oil and gas licences,

He argued new legislation called the offshore petroleum licensing bill “would in effect allow more frequent new oil and gas licences and the increased production of new fossil fuels in the North Sea”.

“I can no longer stand by,” he said on X. “The climate crisis that we face is too important to politicise or to ignore.”

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