Prem Sikka calls for wealth tax to offset environmental damage caused by richest 1%

Prem Sikka raised the side of climate change that few political leaders seem willing to talk about during a House of Lords address on the Cop28 climate summit.

As the prime minister, foreign secretary and King flew out to Dubai on individual private jets to a country that has a questionable record on climate change, Lord Sikka called for the government to levy wealth taxes on the richest 1 per cent to reduce their capacity to destroy the planet.

Unfortunately, his pleas fell on deaf ears.

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