Private equity investor concerned about Tory ‘hatred’ of onshore windfarms and that Britain may leave the European Union if there is a Conservative election win

One of the UK’s top private equity investors has attacked the Conservative party’s policy on windfarms and said that a Labour-Scottish National party (SNP) majority would be the best election result for the renewable energy industry.

Guy Hands, whose investment house Terra Firma is a large wind and solar power investor, said he was deeply concerned about the “emotional hatred” some Conservatives seemed to have about onshore windfarms.

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