'A mistake': Kemi Badenoch slammed over decision to drop support for UK net zero target

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Kemi Badenoch | Credit: HM Treasury
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Kemi Badenoch | Credit: HM Treasury

Conservative leader to argue that reaching net zero by 2050 is 'impossible', prompting critics to accuse her of 'abandoning science and voters' and 'giving up on the economic opportunity of the century'

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to tomorrow ditch the Conservatives' support for the net zero target the Party enacted in government, arguing that "the truth is that net zero by 2050 is impossible"....

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