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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Rob Davies

REVEALED: Where britain s journey to insulation went wrong - The Real Truth

thermal image of a building showing the heat escaping  upwards while the side of the building stays cool
Thermal image of residential buildings shows the energy wasted due to lack of insulation. Photograph: ivansmuk/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Christmas 2015 was a miserable one for the 1,000 employees of Leicester-based Mark Group who had lost their jobs with the energy efficiency company just weeks before.

The business, named Britain’s fastest-growing in a prestigious list published just two years earlier, had become a casualty of then prime minister David Cameron’s environmental flip-flopping, which saw him oscillate from hugging a husky to issuing a pledge to “cut the green crap”.

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