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22/06/2017
DUP Party Branded 'Dinosaurs'
A Green Party MP has called the DUP "dinosaurs.
Co-Leader Caroline Lucas made statement after challenging Prime Minister Theresa May over the absence environmental policies in the Queen's Speech.
She said: "The speech contained eight Brexit bills, but not a single one of those bills covered the environment.
"Is her failure to propose a Brexit bill on the greatest challenge that we face because she simply doesn’t care about the environment and climate change?
"Or because she's been influenced by the DUP dinosaurs who sit beside me?"
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson asked: "Is it parliamentary for the honourable lady to describe us in the unparliamentary terms that she did, which I regret? She does not understand the policy that my party has on the environment."
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Co-Leader Caroline Lucas made statement after challenging Prime Minister Theresa May over the absence environmental policies in the Queen's Speech.
She said: "The speech contained eight Brexit bills, but not a single one of those bills covered the environment.
"Is her failure to propose a Brexit bill on the greatest challenge that we face because she simply doesn’t care about the environment and climate change?
"Or because she's been influenced by the DUP dinosaurs who sit beside me?"
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson asked: "Is it parliamentary for the honourable lady to describe us in the unparliamentary terms that she did, which I regret? She does not understand the policy that my party has on the environment."
(CD)
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