Rees-Mogg slaps down Boris

Talk about politics making strange bedfellows. It seems some unlikely alliances are being formed on this wet Wednesday afternoon, following the news that Rishi Sunak plans to water down his Net Zero commitments this evening. On the Tory side, two of Liz Truss’s former supporters – Chris Skidmore and Simon Clarke –were straight out of the blocks to attack Sunak’s plans.

They were joined by Zac Goldsmith, an ardent Boris-backer who told Newsnight that Sunak was ‘dismantling credibility’ by backtracking on government’s net zero plans, and that this would be looked back on as a ‘moment of shame’. Johnson himself has now come out today and said:

It is crucial that we give those businesses confidence that government is still committed to Net Zero and can see the way ahead. We cannot afford to falter now or in any way lose our ambition for this country.

Yet not all the Johnsonites are on the same page it seems.