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Miliband scolds PM for 'sleepwalking into crisis'
Labour leader accuses Cameron of giving up climate change fight

Ed Miliband tore into David Cameron yesterday for giving up the fight against climate change, with the recent disastrous flooding the result.

The Labour leader said the winter storms should serve as a "wake up call."

Two people died on Friday - James Swinstead, a passenger on a cruise ship in the English Channel, and minicab driver Julie Sillitoe, whose car was hit by falling masonry in central London.

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