Tory leadership hopefuls pledged to scrap a raft of green policies that are crucial if the UK is to meet its net-zero targets by 2050.
Attorney General Suella Braverman has vowed to ‘suspend the all-consuming desire to achieve net zero by 2050’ Tory leadership hopefuls pledged to scrap a raft of green policies that are crucial if the UK is to meet itsThe issue has once again become a key dividing line within the leadership race, with right-wing candidates vowing to cut green energy levies, while others pledging to pause the legal commitment to go carbon neutral altogether.
Nadhim Zahawi became the latest contender to try to woo the net-zero sceptics in the party by promising to scrapHe told a room of Tory MPs and activists on Monday that while he remained committed to the 2050 target, the next leader needed to respond to the cost of living “emergency” first. “It is simply not right that families are currently having to see their bills skyrocket and they’re struggling with it and we do nothing,” he said.
“We will continue to meet our net zero target for 2050 but this is a moment of emergency and we have to act like it.” It emerged that Home Secretary Priti Patel is poised to announce her own leadership bid on Tuesday with the explicit pledge to scrap all green levies on energy bills, but also go further and lift the moratorium on fracking.
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