Rishi Sunak considering weakening key green policies (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Rishi Sunak is considering weakening some of the government's key green commitments in a major policy shift.

It could include delaying a ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel cars and phasing out gas boilers, multiple sources have told the BBC.

The PM is preparing to set out the changes in a speech in the coming days.

There is no suggestion that Mr Sunak is considering abandoning the legal commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

But he is expected to declare that other countries need to bear more of the burden of dealing with climate change.

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[-] HipPriest@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I'm actually quite pleased with this because it seemed like Starmer was weakening on environmental issues, especially after the whole Ulez business. Hopefully if the PM is getting flak for diluting his policies on it Starmer will stick to his guns for once

[-] peter@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

You know the media and therefore the general public will conviniently ignore that though and continue with this narrative that starmer makes labour a worse choice than the tories

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Labour could come out with a policy where they eat babies and they would still be a better choice than the Tories.

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