Rishi Sunak’s recent announcement on the UK’s green initiatives has been branded “fundamentally dishonest” by the author of the government’s review of net zero. Ex-energy minister Chris Skidmore MP criticised the prime minister for touting his Downing Street announcement a fortnight ago as a shift in policy, while speaking at a fringe session at the Conservative party organised by the IPPR thinktank. He said that “nothing has changed” because policy had already allowed for exceptions to the phase out of internal combustion engine small vehicles and fossil fuel boilers by the target dates of 2030 and 2035 respectively.
Net zero tsar claims Sunak’s speech ‘changes nothing’
