Mordaunt obtained the donation from a agency referred to as ‘First Company Consultants, owned by Terence Mordaunt – a famend critic of established local weather change science’.
Tory management hopeful Penny Mordaunt has accepted hundreds of kilos of donations from a donor linked to the nation’s principal local weather denial group.
The story has resurfaced after Mordaunt entered the race to interchange Boris Johnson after the scandal hit prime minister introduced his intention to resign.
Final yr, Byline Occasions reported that in January 2021, Mordaunt obtained the donation from a agency referred to as ‘First Company Consultants, owned by Terence Mordaunt – a famend critic of established local weather change science’.
“Certainly, Terence Mordaunt is the chairman of the International Warming Coverage Basis (GWPF), which is described by investigative outfit DeSmog as “the UK’s principal local weather science denial marketing campaign group”. Mr Mordaunt assumed the position in 2019, having served because the director of the stress group’s advocacy arm, the International Warming Coverage Discussion board, since April 2017.”
As of right this moment, Terence Mordaunt remains to be listed as a trustee of the International Warming Coverage Basis (GWPF). The GWPF has a historical past of questioning local weather science. The UK primarily based suppose tank was based by former Conservative Chancellor Nigel Lawson with the aim of combating what it describes as “extraordinarily damaging and dangerous insurance policies” designed to mitigate local weather change.
Lawson has additionally beforehand mentioned that world warming is ‘not an issue’.
Terence Mordaunt as soon as informed openDemocracy: “Nobody has proved but that CO2 is the wrongdoer (of local weather change).”
Byline additionally reported that ‘Mordaunt beforehand gave £10,000 to Penny Mordaunt in Could 2019, and has been a prolific Conservative Celebration donor lately’.
Penny Mordaunt, who’s now seen as among the many favourites to develop into prime minister, has beforehand spoken in regards to the risks posed by local weather change. In April 2019 she informed Parliament that local weather change is ‘an existential menace’.
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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