No fewer than seven provincial premiers, including one from the Prime Minister’s own party, are lined up with the Conservatives against next month’s planned increase.
Our generating capacity and National Grid infrastructure are nowhere near ready for a full transition away from fossil fuels, and the political price of forcing lower living standards on voters will be very steep indeed.
Does the caginess reveal an opportunist leadership, prepared too launch key policies without working out the details? Or is there in fact a detailed programme in place – but they believe it is either too complicated or too contentious to spell it out?
I hope the British public get an answer. Because these are highly consequential decisions about the future shape of the state. £28 billion is £4 billion more than the annual Home Office budget.
As “world-beating” Britain became the first G20 country to mandate new rules, our competitors, including the United States, are having second thoughts about all these extra layers of regulation.
Christmas can be a trying time – but this list of diversions, distractions, and silver linings should help even see the most dispirited activist through the holidays.
His Majesty also seems unaware that in the pursuit of Net Zero, his British subjects are expected to make radical and unpopular lifestyle changes. These days, an eco-sensibility isn’t confined to concern about polar bears: it’s politics.
“Rishi’s recent commentary and decisions on green matters, which was taken as denying net zero, no it is not! It’s making net zero achievable for ordinary people…”
It’s absurd that we count CO2 output for domestic manufacturing, but not that produced by the manufacture and transportation of imported goods – and that’s just the start.
The Government has the opportunity in South Georgia to extend vital safeguards to a huge swathe of the Antarctic which is home to more biodiversity than the Galapagos.
Pro-environment policies – and Treasury funding to make them a reality – were a consistent hallmark of his tenure as Chancellor,
Time will tell, but my impression is the way the announcement was made – and, crucially, reported – means it’ll have a marginally negative impact overall.
“So I’ll have no truck with anyone saying we lack ambition. But there’s nothing ambitious about merely asserting a goal for a short-term headline without being honest with the public about the tough choices and sacrifices involved.”
Ill-conceived policies, such as the new legal maxima on window sizes, alienate voters and make the challenge of addressing this urgent public health concern that much more difficult. There are much easer and more effective solutions.