Ed Miliband has signed up to a legal target to cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by 87% by 2040. Not stopping this train…
This is in order to reach Net Zero by 2050. The 2038-42 period is the seventh ‘carbon budget.’ The Climate Change Committee says “meeting the target will require households to install heat pumps instead of new boilers, switch to electric cars and vans and eat less meat and dairy.” Strap in…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”