Commentators focus their attention on the Red or Blue walls, but the Conservatives shouldn’t turn their backs on the green bridge of voters in both camps, especially when we have a strong record on climate and the environment.
Short-sighted overregulation and creative accounting to offshore our CO2 emissions are no way to build a prosperous, sustainable future.
And her government has decided that the best time to do all this is in the middle of the most serious energy crisis in decades.
This new sector is one of the best opportunities on offer for levelling up our country for all – and delivering a post-Brexit success story.
This positive decision will also be a welcome sign for any Sunak-sceptic Northern MPs that he takes levelling up – and them holding their seats in 2024 – seriously.
The moral of this story is that these models provide interesting context – a little like horoscopes. But when it comes to decision-making, give me an economic historian in preference to a model any day.
It would create a big guaranteed market for an important British industry and accelerate our drive toward Net Zero, at no cost to the taxpayer.
That the UK is a leader in battery science is down to the last industrial strategy. The new industrial strategy could deliver an even greater prize.
This half-day conference will explore the critical issues surrounding energy – from security of supply, international energy partnerships, and domestic power generation; to energy efficiency, net zero and the cost of living.
This half-day conference will explore the critical issues surrounding energy – from security of supply, international energy partnerships, and domestic power generation; to energy efficiency, net zero and the cost of living.
A pro-green agenda can complement a pro-growth one rather than contradict it, and the two can work together hand in hand – making progress on levelling up as they do so.
Honda, the world’s leading motorcycle manufacturer, sets out a roadmap to carbon neutral motorcycling and questions the value of government plans to end the sale of petrol motorcycles in the UK by 2035.
Truss’s administration, whether fairly or not, was perceived to have backtracked on some of the party’s key environmental commitments.
The EU has imposed a series of requirements which have increased costs and complexity. There is no longer the need for the UK to impose such EU requirements.
We might get the most optimal outcomes from the Independent Net Zero Review by extracting the best of it and focusing our efforts. Let’s prioritise those priorities.