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Shadow justice secretary told students ‘life becomes a lot harder’ if ‘the right is not united’, according to SkyNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has said Britain should not have any policies at all intended to tackle the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions.In an interview with the Today programme, Farage would not even confirm that he accepts that carbon emissions are leading to climate change.I think we should scrap the net zero targets, yes, absolutely. I think they’re going to make zero difference in the world.Nick, you better go and talk to the Chinese about that …We make no difference whatsoever. I think we should be mining our own coal that we need for our steel works. I think we should be self-sufficient, in fact even an exporter, of gas. We make no difference.It may well be. It may well be.Let’s go with the scientists. Let’s say that the 3% to 5% of CO2 emissions in the world every year that are man-made, as opposed to natural, are having a detrimental, or at least a warming effect on the world. Let’s start from that position.But what I don’t accept is that we should commit economic hara-kiri in the name that somehow we are going to save the world. We’re not.We are less than 1% of global CO2 production and frankly, what we’ve really done in the last 20 years is to delude ourselves by allowing all of our heavy industries to close, to relocate to China and India, for the goods that we used to make here to be manufactured there under lower environmental standards.Alexander told MPs her department is aiming to end the backlog by summer 2026.This is despite the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) having a target of reducing average waiting times for tests across Britain to no more than seven weeks by the end of this year. Continue reading...
Shadow justice secretary told students ‘life becomes a lot harder’ if ‘the right is not united’, according to Sky
Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, has said Britain should not have any policies at all intended to tackle the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions.
In an interview with the Today programme, Farage would not even confirm that he accepts that carbon emissions are leading to climate change.
I think we should scrap the net zero targets, yes, absolutely. I think they’re going to make zero difference in the world.
Nick, you better go and talk to the Chinese about that …
We make no difference whatsoever. I think we should be mining our own coal that we need for our steel works. I think we should be self-sufficient, in fact even an exporter, of gas. We make no difference.
It may well be. It may well be.
Let’s go with the scientists. Let’s say that the 3% to 5% of CO2 emissions in the world every year that are man-made, as opposed to natural, are having a detrimental, or at least a warming effect on the world. Let’s start from that position.
But what I don’t accept is that we should commit economic hara-kiri in the name that somehow we are going to save the world. We’re not.
We are less than 1% of global CO2 production and frankly, what we’ve really done in the last 20 years is to delude ourselves by allowing all of our heavy industries to close, to relocate to China and India, for the goods that we used to make here to be manufactured there under lower environmental standards.
Alexander told MPs her department is aiming to end the backlog by summer 2026.
This is despite the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) having a target of reducing average waiting times for tests across Britain to no more than seven weeks by the end of this year. Continue reading...
