The Tories set the UK net zero target. Now they are dumping it

Politico Europe

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

The Tories set the UK net zero target. Now they are dumping it

LONDON — Kemi Badenoch’s new-look Conservative opposition is still working out the policies it wants to put before voters. But the U.K.’s net zero target is already firmly in the party’s firing line. The Tories, while in government, passed legislation to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Now Badenoch and her shadow team say the target damages the country — and they want to ditch it. Setting that aim in 2019 was a “mistake,” argued int…