Rishi Sunak declares Conservatives have 'solved' net zero 'problems'

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Rishi Sunak defended his recent to delay several planks of the UK's Net Zero Strategy at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester
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Rishi Sunak defended his recent to delay several planks of the UK's Net Zero Strategy at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester

Prime Minister again defends decision to rollback climate policies, insisting he will 'take no lectures' from countries that are not decarbonising as fast as the UK

Rishi Sunak has today declared that the government has "solved" the problems presented by the government's previous net zero strategy, as the Prime Minister again defended his decision to rollback a series...

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