Following a chaotic day inside Downing Street sparked by Tony Blair’s brutal broadside on net zero, YouGov has dropped a timely poll asking if the public if they think net zero is – as Blair put it – doomed to fail. The overwhelming majority agree with the former PM…
Out of over 5,300 Britons, a whopping 74% think the UK will either ‘definitely’ or’ probably’ fail to reach net zero by 2050 – with 70% of Labour voters agreeing it’s unlikely. Just 11% think the UK will ‘probably succeed’, while a pitiful 1% believe the UK will ‘definitely’ achieve it. Red Ed is aiming for 95% clean energy by 2030 – a full 20 years earlier than the target most people already think is out of reach. No wonder Number 10 have refused to guarantee his survival…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”
