Tory MP finds Abbott's climate policies 'incomprehensible'

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British Tory MP, Richard Benyon,
finds Tony Abbott's climate
policies 'incomprehensible'.

 prominent British Tory MP has launched a stinging attack on Prime Minister Tony Abbott's climate change policies, calling them "incomprehensible", "illogical" and a distortion of "what it means to be a Conservative".

Richard Benyon, a former environment minister under British leader David Cameron, says Mr Abbott's decision to become the first world leader to abolish a carbon price is "mystifying" and his attack on renewable energy targets "bewildering", especially for a "supposedly pro-business government".

In an opinion piece for The Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Benyon argues that "those who, like Mr Abbott, persist in regarding climate change as a left-wing conspiracy based on speculative science are in a rapidly dwindling minority".

Read the piece from today’s Melbourne Age - “Leading Tory MP calls Tony Abbott's climate change policies 'incomprehensible'”.