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Newsnight find someone who supports having 7 bins – and you’ll never guess who it is

Newsnight has unearthed footage of a prominent proponent of multiple bins – and you’ll never guess who it is.

Rishi Sunak led the march to scrap measures such as taxes on meats and flying this week, even though they were never government policy in the first place.

In a speech in Downing Street, the prime minister said he will be easing a series of green policies while setting out a “new approach” designed to protect “hard-pressed British families” from “unacceptable costs”.

He confirmed the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 will be pushed back to 2035 and changes to the Government’s plan to phase out new boilers.

The PM also claimed to have scrapped a series of “heavy-handed measures”, such as a tax on meat and flying, compulsory car-sharing and forcing people to recycle in seven different bins.

But footage unearthed that having multiple bins could be quite a popular policy, not least with the prime minister himself!

Watch and see:

Related: The PM’s plan to ‘scrap’ Net Zero ‘proposals’, fact checked

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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