Sir Crispin Tickell, former top diplomat, chancellor of the University of Kent and environmental campaigner, is the man who persuaded Margaret Thatcher that not all environmentalists are woolly-minded hippies. Described as a cross between Jonathan Porritt and Sir Humphrey Appleby from Yes Minister, he now has the ear of Tony Blair and John Prescott, thanks to his role as chairman of the government's Panel on Sustainable Development.
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