The Prime Minister said he was being 'honest' with the public by rowing back on a series of net zero commitments
But there were significant doubts over the existence of several other policies Mr Sunak scrapped, namely a meat tax, a frequent flyer tax, “compulsory car sharing” and plans to force households to have seven recycling bins.The decision to delay the ban on new diesel and petrol cars and gas fired boilers was met with significant unease from industry.
“Today’s announcement is likely to take the UK further away from being able to meet its legal commitments,” the commission’s chair, Piers Forster, said, before adding: “This, coupled with the recentThe Conservative Environment Network, which represents around 150 Tory MPs, warned Mr Sunak his watering down of green policies risks reputational damage for the Tories.
Labour’s shadow Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, said the speech was an “act of weakness from a desperate, directionless Prime Minister, dancing to the tune of a small minority of his party”. The National Housing Federation said scrapping targets to insulate homes would lead to people facing higher bills “for years to come”.
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