Rishi Sunak is right to get rid of 20 mph zones

Are we seeing the real Rishi Sunak at last? Since telling the nation on 20 September that his government will be taking a more realistic approach to reducing carbon emissions, the Prime Minister has announced – or, more often, refused to deny – that he intends to introduce a whole bunch of policies that horrify bien pensants but go down rather well with the general public. Nine days ago, the Economist warned that ‘If Mr Sunak hopes attacking its green plans is a way to turn around the polling figures, then he is almost certainly wrong.’ Within days, Labour’s lead in the opinion polls had been slashed by eight points according to Deltapoll and by five points according to YouGov. His opponents have since been reduced to complaining that the Prime Minister is announcing policies to try to win votes, as if that wasn’t part of his job.

This week Sunak has approved drilling