For too long, we’ve coasted on the achievements of past generations. Britain has been stagnating. Labour is making things worse and taking us backwards.
We need to tell the truth, and we’re starting with energy. Net Zero by 2050 is impossible. To achieve it would mean crushing living standards or national bankruptcy. No responsible leader should sell a fantasy that leaves families poorer or mortgages our children’s future — especially when the rest of the world isn’t playing by the same rules.
How do I know this? Because I saw in my various roles in government that there’s never been a real plan. The Climate Change Act 2008? No plan. Carbon budgets? No real plan. Net Zero legislation in 2019? No plan. A multi-trillion, 30-year overhaul of our economy — pushed through in 90 minutes without a single vote. That has to stop.
We are under new leadership and we’re going to do things differently by telling hard truths.
Kemi Badenoch