Prime minister to give interview after major shift in green policies sparks domestic and international outrage
Good morning. Politics is 98% moments of routine predictibility (interesting to those of us who care about it, but others not so much to others), and then perhaps 2% moments of eye-catching wow. Rishi Sunak’s speech yesterday, in which he aligned himself with the net zero sceptics, abandoned what had been a cross-party consensus, and earned himself rave reviews in the Tory papers, was in that category. In his London Playbook briefing Dan Bloom says Sunak wakes up to “a political landscape shifted by his own hand”. But will it still look like that in a week’s time? And, crucially, with the polls, will it shift the dial?
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