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Time to talk: Owen Paterson (Picture: PA)
PA
18 July 2014
Could Owen Paterson, replaced as Environment Secretary, be about to reveal his true colours on the green agenda? Long-suspected of being a climate-change sceptic, the former Defra minister has announced he will be delivering the annual lecture for the Global Warming Policy Foundation. That’s the group chaired by climate-change denier Nigel Lawson.