Former government adviser Polly Billington urges bigger steps to shield people in UK from effects of Iran war
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Former government adviser Polly Billington urges bigger steps to shield people in UK from effects of Iran war
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Keir Starmer should convene a global energy summit of the same order as Gordon Brown’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and put Britain on a “war footing” to reduce its exposure to fossil fuels, a Labour MP and former government adviser has said.
Polly Billington, who was an aide in Brown’s government, warned that economic pain was “hurtling down the tracks” and a bigger response was needed to protect the British people from the consequences of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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