Will climate change be the next political faultline?

Environment is rising up the nation’s list of general election priorities

Climate change protest
A climate change protester on the roof of the Houses of Parliament
(Image credit: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)

Combating climate change is on course to join Brexit as a political faultline for UK voters, a new survey suggests.

Sky News, which commissioned the poll, reports that the issue is “dividing the UK in a similar way to Brexit”.

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