Reform has produced a dossier of Claire Coutinho’s net zero-positive statements from her time in office. Ministerial lines and all that…
Reform’s would-be Energy Secretary Richard Tice said:
“Claire Coutinho was instrumental in growing the Department for Net Zero and famously said “nothing will distract us from achieving net zero”. Her report today is a stunning admission that her disastrous mistake sent bills spiralling and has made working people poorer. The British people are still awaiting an apology from her. The Tory Party can never be trusted again to fix the energy system they broke.”
Some quotes include “nothing will distract us from achieving net zero or driving forward renewables” from 2023 and Coutinho’s boasting about halving emissions the year after. This is the point when Zia Yusuf glares at Robert Jenrick and his archive of ministerial statements…
Read the dossier below:
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”