Rishi Sunak hadn’t wanted to announce the first part of his ‘vision’ for government this way. He was bounced into the press conference on a new approach to net zero by a massive leak. Towards the end of the Q&A session, the Prime Minister said, slightly testily, that he hoped ‘now people, rather than looking at the speculation, but having now seen what I’ve actually said and the detail of what I was saying can digest it, absorb it, and I think it will command very broad support, not just in our party but also in the country’.
Sunak struggled with accusations that he ‘watered down’ the UK’s commitments on tackling climate change. He insisted repeatedly that the policy changes he was announcing meant the country would still be on track to meet net zero by 2050, but without the unnecessary extra measures that the public had been bounced into.
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