The Climate Change Committee has unveiled its latest carbon budget as part of the government’s drive toward Net Zero. Unsurprisingly, it comes with a hefty price tag. The quango estimates that “the net costs of Net Zero will be around 0.2% of GDP a year on average” until 2050—amounting to roughly £5 billion annually over the next 25 years. That’s the same figure as Starmer’s planned defence spending increase…
The CCC’s recommendations include:
Governments have historically followed the CCC’s five-year carbon budgets as required under the Climate Change Act. Translation: higher bills and extra costs for households, and the economy. Meanwhile, Starmer faces scrutiny over whether his defence spending sums actually add up. The IFS has pointed out that cutting foreign aid by 0.2% would cover less than half of what he needs. If Starmer is serious about hitting 3% of GDP on defence in the next Parliament, he should start by slashing Net Zero pledges next…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”