The focus on deficit reduction was expected, but it provides no excuse for the absence of green commitments
For years the announcement of a new budget was followed by protests from environmental groups that the green section of the chancellor's budget address amounted to little more than political rhetoric. Well, how they will be missing that rhetoric this afternoon.
George Osborne's emergency budget contained barely a mention of the low carbon economy, climate change, the need to cut carbon emissions, or even the coalition's own pledge to become the greenest government in history.
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