United Kingdom: Conservatives ask PM Sunak to scrap “Net Zero” policies to try to win elections
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may consider abandoning key net zero pledges in a bid to win back popular favor, according to his cabinet ministers and senior conservatives, the Telegraph reported.
This is the Conservative reading of the latest mid-term elections in three constituencies, two going to Labor and one to the Conservatives. The only one won by the Conservatives, that of Uxbridge, was won due to the tough opposition to the hyper-environmental policies of the mayor of London Khan, with the raising of the cost of the ULEZ toll area.
Conservative leaders want the Prime Minister to better protect households from the cost of phasing out new gas boilers by 2035 and postpone the ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030. I want to use what's called 'The Green Wedge', fears over the exorbitant costs of the CO2 transition, to hook voters who would otherwise switch to Labour, after the recent scandals, who want to meet climate goals the hard way, as the ULEZ shows . This measure, which costs every citizen £12.50 to enter inner London and is extremely hated, proved decisive on Friday for the Conservatives not to lose constituency.
Conservative politicians have therefore become extremely critical of the possibility of reaching net zero in 2050 and of imposing the abandonment of the internal combustion car in 2030 or the imposition of heat pumps.
A cabinet minister told The Telegraph: “It's about pace and practicality. This is not the area of pure ideology, it is an area of balance. I don't deny the need for net zero, but making this a top priority means you end up as a green group with no growth."
At this point, the Conservatives would like to focus on a much slower pace and, above all, on a transition that does not weigh on citizens' pockets, instead putting Lord Stramer's Labor Party in difficulty, not particularly nice and very knowledgeable about CO2, especially when citizens are paying for it.
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