Fossil Fuels

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:17 pm on 30 April 2019.

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Photo of Mark Reckless Mark Reckless Conservative 2:17, 30 April 2019

Surely the UK Government has been taxing rather than subsidising carbon use. Will the First Minister not congratulate George Osborne on his carbon tax, which has cut coal use by three quarters, or congratulate the UK Government rather than call it neanderthal, as UK carbon emissions have fallen faster than almost anywhere else in the world, by around 40 per cent since 1990 compared to only 17 per cent in Wales, or indeed congratulate the first world leader to campaign on climate change, who was Margaret Thatcher?