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Monday 9th June, 2008
My Tips for Boris
Zac Goldsmith contributor to the Policy Exchange report, A Million Vote Mandate, writes on environmental challenges facing London in The Guardian.
"For the first time in British politics, a mainstream candidate for high office, Ken Livingstone, put climate change at the heart of his campaign. Yet, against expectations, he lost. But while it has been said that majoring on green issues was partly the reason, I believe it was his approach to environmentalism that turned people off."
"By reducing the complex environmental challenges we face to the single issue of carbon, the mayor lost sight of the broader environmental concerns of ordinary people. He understood the fundamental importance of climate change. But because he failed to link it to people's lives, there was a backlash."
