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A former environment secretary is one of dozens of prospective Conservative Party MPs who have declined to discuss their plans for tackling climate change with constituents at local pre-election debates.
Two weeks after DeSmog first revealed that Conservative candidates were missing from climate hustings across the country, campaign group Extinction Rebellion has compiled a list of 50 that it said had declined invitations to appear, in addition to 13 that did not appear at one event that covered the whole of the Black Country.
