Richard Tice says voters will turn on government unless energy bills fall
Labour will back down on its policies aimed at achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the deputy leader of the Reform has predicted.
Richard Tice, the energy spokesperson for Reform and MP for Boston and Skegness, told the Guardian his party would withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement that tries to limit global heating to 1.5C.
Cross-party consensus on climate appears to have broken down despite polls showing public support for action
Just as Labour forges ahead with net zero policies, the chief energy spokespeople of the UK’s two main rightwing opposition parties are openly questioning long-settled climate science, in what seems like a mission to discredit and confuse the whole issue.
It is a development that would have been unthinkable just three years ago, when the four-decade-long cross-party consensus on the climate still held firm. Even up to last year’s general election, every mainland party other than Reform UK campaigned on a commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.