Force the Resignation of Environmental Secretary Andrea Leadsom

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In July 2016, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May appointed Andrea Leadsom as her Environmental Secretary, a post-Brexit move that has infuriated environmentalists across the globe.

Leadsom lacks what _The Guardian_ cites as 'top-level political experience, absence of track record in farming or environmental areas and ideological approach to policy.' Leadsom, in 2011, backed the government's proposed policy to sell off of Britain's forests to the highest bidder.

Until October 2015, when as Energy Minister she addressed a parliamentary fracking group, Leadsom was confused as to whether or not climate change was a real thing. It became apparent in March 2016 that her confusion hadn't cleared, as she voted against the development of a strategy for carbon capture and storage for the energy industry, a technology that can prevent up to 90% of carbon dioxide emissions from entering the atmosphere.

**Leadsom has even expressed her support for a repeal of the fox hunting ban, which was put in place in 2004 to end the gruesome practice of hunting foxes with large groups of trained dogs.**

Someone that supports such inhumane and environmentally jeopardizing practices should have never been appointed to a position as crucial as that of Environmental Secretary. Not pre-Brexit, not post-Brexit, not ever.

Prime Minister May and her cabinet must acknowledge that environmental issues are fluid and cannot be isolated to just one nation. They must acknowledge, then, that Andrea Leadsom's uninformed stances as Environmental Secretary are a danger to the future of Britain and the planet's climate as a whole.

**Sign below for Prime Minister May to force the resignation of Environmental Secretary Leadsom.**