Plans to build the UK’s largest solar farm in the Lincolnshire countryside are so unpopular with residents that the leader of the county council has promised to put on his wellies and lie down in front of the bulldozers to stop it being built.

This is not perhaps surprising given that Sean Matthews, the council leader in question, is a member of Reform UK – a party which successfully campaigned in Lincolnshire with the slogan “No to net zero madness” and frequently deploys the issue as a heavy weapon in its culture wars.

But, his view that Tillbridge Solar Farm’s 3.5 square miles of panels and other infrastructure would amount to “vandalism of our beautiful country” clearly resonates with many, as the party’s recent election success in the county attests. Protestors in Lincolnshire say n

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