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Claire Coutinho, energy secretary, says she ‘wouldn’t have used necessarily those words’ when asked about Braverman
During her morning interview round this morning Claire Coutinho, the energy security and net zero secretary, seemed to spend quite a lot of time not agreeing with Suella Braverman’s choice of words. As well as refusing to say the home secretary was right to call homelessness a lifestyle choice (see 9.25am), Coutinho also indicated that she did not agree with her cabinet colleague about the pro-Palestinian marches in London and elsewhere being “hate marches”. Asked about that term, Coutinho told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:
I wouldn’t necessarily use that language, but let me say this – what we’ve seen on those marches in instances is incredibly hateful behaviour.
This proposed Bill does nothing to lower energy bills, does nothing to deliver energy security and is a sign of a government that is bankrupt of any ideas.
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