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Suella Braverman, the home secretary, was doing the media round this morning on behalf of No 10. As Aletha Adu reports, without giving details of what Rishi Sunak will announce, she backed the idea of watering down net zero targets.
Braverman told Times Radio:
We’ve achieved a huge amount in the last decade … but ultimately, we have to adopt a pragmatic approach, a proportionate approach, and one that also serves our goals. And we’re not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people.
We need to make sure these [net zero] targets are achievable. We need to make sure, whatever goal we set, is going to be affordable, it’s going to be sustainable, and ultimately that it’s deliverable. We don’t want to set targets which are totally unrealistic and punitive.
