She says sectarian politics and ‘political Islam’ do not represent the British way, and “we need to grip it”.
Being in tune with voters’ concerns could mean saving some seats as well as saving the planet.
Britain Remade suggests we now rank 15th out of 16 countries by construction cost per megawatt-hour of generating capacity. The causes are depressingly familiar.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
We know how difficult it was to lose millions of manufacturing jobs – let us beware of inadvertently accelerating the same process for services jobs.
Nineteen Conservative backbenchers spoke against the policy. It’s doubtful whether a top-down targets system will pass the Commons.
Given that the Tories sanctioned the pursuit of net zero for the last 14 years the key question is do they possess the political will to challenge the fundamental assumptions behind the 2030 decarbonisation target?