The shadow net zero secretary said Mr Sunak saw the drive to cut emissions as an obligation forced on him rather than an economic opportunity.
Rishi Sunak"does not give a damn" about climate change, Ed Miliband has claimed, after the prime minister decided to postpone a series of green measures.saw the drive to cut emissions as an obligation forced on him rather than an economic opportunity.
"We face three crises as a country," Mr Miliband told the online conference of Labour's sister Co-operative Party.The former Labour leader said Mr Sunak has"got answers to none of these" and"he doesn't give a damn about the climate crisis".Sunak 'playing politics' on climate?the ban on new petrol and diesel cars, softened the plan to phase out gas boilers by 2035 and scrapped the requirement of energy efficiency upgrades to homes.
Mr Miliband said:"I think Rishi Sunak simply sees the climate crisis as an obligation to be managed, not an opportunity to be seized, and we see it as an opportunity to be seized."When you think about the jobs we can generate in home insulation, when you think about the jobs you can generate in wind turbine manufacturing, but we haven't done it as a country."He said Labour had a"proper industrial strategy to do it" with subsidies for firms to locate in the UK.
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