I Consider This To Be VERY Good News - The Fightback Against Bad Science Has Finally Begun in The UK.

 British arm of Heartland, which has taken oil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry

Helena Horton and Ben Quinn

Wed 15 Jan 2025. Times.

Climate science deniers are lining up a political offensive in Britain after a US lobby group opened a UK branch which is already working with Nigel Farage.

The Reform UK leader was the guest of honour at the launch of Heartland UK/Europe, which is to be headed by a former leader of Ukip and climate denier.

The former prime minister Liz Truss was seen at the event in London, alongside current Tory MPs Andrew Griffith, who is the shadow trade minister, and Christopher Chope.

The establishment of this UK branch of the Heartland Institute – which has links to the incoming Trump administration and has drawn on funding from companies including ExxonMobil and wealthy US Republican donors – comes as Farage seeks to make hostility to net zero a centrepiece of Reform’s electoral pitch. Reform MPs have used speaking time in parliament to push for the scrapping of net zero targets and to call for new coalmines.

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Liz Truss with James Taylor, the president of the Heartland Institute. Photograph: Heartland. Guardian.