Climate Politics
Net Zero by 2050 Is ‘Impossible,’ UK Tory Leader Badenoch Says
Kemi Badenoch is trying to win back voters that the party lost on its right flank to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.
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The UK won’t be able to transform its economy to net zero by 2050, according to Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, in a break with the consensus held by Britain’s main parties.
Britain doesn’t have a workable plan to reach the emissions goal in the next quarter-century, and current policies are serving only to drive up consumer energy costs, Badenoch said on Tuesday in a speech. The only way to regain the trust of voters is to tell the “unvarnished truth,” she said.