Carrie Johnson’s environmentalist friend Lord Goldsmith QUITS as a government minister with withering attack on ‘uninterested’ Rishi Sunak over the slow pace of green reforms
One of Rishi Sunak‘s ministers quit today with a withering attack on the Prime Minister’s lack of action on green issues.
Lord Goldsmith, an environmentalist and close friend of Carrie Johnson, the wife of the former prime minister, stepped down today with an attack on government apathy on the issue.
The former MP was ennobled by Mr Johnson after losing his Richmond Park seat in 2019 and was seen as a strong influence on his Net Zero drive while in power.
Goldsmith was Minister for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
In a letter posted online he said: ‘The problem is not that the government is hostile to the environment, it is that you, our Prime Minister, are simply uninterested.’
