A proposed law compelling the UK to meet new legally binding targets on climate change and protecting nature has failed to clear its first hurdle in the House of Commons.
The government won a motion, by 120 votes to seven, to end debate of the bill, meaning it will not return to the House of Commons until July and is unlikely to become law.
The Climate and Nature Bill had been proposed by Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage, however she said she would not push for a vote on the bill itself, having agreed to work with ministers to find a way forward.
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However, the party's frontbench spokesman Andrew Bowie opposed it, specifically objecting to the role of the citizens' assembly.
He said a government minister would be "legally bound" to follow proposals of the assembly's "unelected and unaccountable" members.
so now ngo bad, huh britain?