Boris Johnson is reported to have said that Margaret Thatcher deserves credit for closing the UK’s coal mines in the 1980s, and that it was her ‘forgotten legacy’ in the fight against climate change.
Controversially he is said to have laughed, adding ‘I thought that would get you going’.
The PM made the comments during a briefing to newspaper journalist while on a trip to Scotland to visit off shore wind projects.
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The coal industry has been ruthlessly undermined and even today coal is preferable to nuclear fission.
Channeling Thatcher the destroyer of worlds
As a newly bald chap, I have done this thumbnail in the mirror thousands of times.
It was time to be a man and face the truth…. the tide is indeed going out! 🤔🇬🇧
I am more worried about Boris Johnson in the polls and him winning the next election then cases of covid going up.
“Imagine how bad Corbyn would have been though!” Is getting a little more quiet now.