Tories must reject climate change 'luddites' on left and right, warns Cleverly

The Conservatives must reject climate change "luddites" on both the right and the left, Sir James Cleverly will warn on Wednesday.

In a speech to the Conservative Environment Network (CEN), the former home secretary is expected to urge his party to "push further, faster and smarter" and "set the pace" internationally on green technology.

As first reported in the Daily Telegraph, he will argue that the UK is "caught between two tribes of neo-luddites", criticising a "negative right" that claims "the way things are now is just fine" and a "negative left" that is "suspicious of technology".

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