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Brexit is a dirty business, but grassroots resistance is growing - an interview with Friends of the Earth’s Kierra Box

Brexiteers plan to slash regulation to a terrifying degree, after years of poor enforcement of existing rules. But Friends of the Earth's Brexit expert takes heart from the new ecosystem of resistance taking shape.

Brexit is a dirty business, but grassroots resistance is growing - an interview with Friends of the Earth’s Kierra Box
Climate activists protesting in London earlier this month | Laura Chiesa/Pacific Press/Sipa USA/PA Images
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Brexit may not have happened this week after all – but it is nonetheless already having a dramatic and profoundly damaging impact on environmental policy across the UK. The ‘pollutocracy’ appears to be consolidating its control over British political life. Boris Johnson – for now at least – has pretty much concluded the takeover of government by those with a direct vested interest in undermining environmental policy.