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Damian Green
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Damian Howard Green (born 17 January 1956) is a British politician who served as First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office from June to December 2017 in the Second May government. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashford from 1997 to the 2024 general election when he was defeated.
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[On the issue of sewage in rivers, lakes and the sea] I'm not denying its a big issue but it always has been. I remember as a child in south Wales swimming in sewage.Jackson's Bay in Barry used to be a sewage outlet where we all went and paddled and swam - it was regarded as acceptable.
On Peston (17 May 2023), as cited in "Water pollution: Tory MP says he swam in sewage as a child" BBC News (17 May 2023)
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