Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 23 August 2022

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1. Truss ‘has sewage on hands’

Greenpeace accused Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss of having “sewage on her hands” after it was revealed that she was responsible for cutting millions of pounds of funding earmarked for tackling water pollution during her time as environment secretary. Truss, who was in charge of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs between 2014 and 2016, oversaw “efficiency” plans to reduce Environment Agency funding by £235m. “There are ways we can make savings as a department,” she had said at the time.

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