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Stephen Tindale, Greenpeace UK Executive Director on whether the Conservatives will emerge as champions of the environment
Under new leadership, they present a powerful combination of potential and rhetoric. Iain Duncan Smith gave a strong speech on solar power during the leadership contest, and is said to be personally committed. Peter Ainsworth, the Shadow Environment Secretary, appears thoughtful and intelligent, and boasts a record of environmental activity on the backbench.