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Guerilla ads target Chancellor for accepting money from climate deniers

ADVERTS criticising Chancellor Rachel Reeves for accepting donations from climate sceptic lobbyists appeared on several London Underground lines today.

The posters by Climate Resistance read: “Your Chancellor, Sponsored by Climate Deniers: Rachel Reeves took £10,000 from them (so far).”

A modified party logo was used, reading: “Labour: still backing oil.”

The guerilla ad referred to the donation from former Global Warming Policy Foundation chairman Lord Donoghue last year.

Soon after, Ms Reeves scrapped Labour’s proposed £28 billion green investment fund.

Climate Resistance’s Sam Simons said the government “must get the country off dirty oil and gas and onto clean, home-grown wind and solar power” to avoid climate change.

“But big oil companies are hijacking our politics in a desperate bid to protect their profits and slow down action on climate change,” he said.

“It’s outrageous that our Chancellor is accepting five-figure sums from notorious climate deniers, while slashing funding for tackling the climate crisis.

“From fires in California to floods in the UK, we’re already seeing the impact of the climate crisis.

“If we want a safe future, we must break the influence of oil lobbyists and climate deniers.”

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