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Sunak’s net-zero retreat

A net positive for the Tories at next year’s election

30 September 2023

9:00 AM

30 September 2023

9:00 AM

Britain’s big news story of the past two weeks will have caused embarrassment at ‘The Thunderer’. Four days before the BBC reported that Prime Minister Sunak planned to water down net-zero targets, the Times dismissed any suggestion that the government would abandon the highest-profile one, the ban from 2030 on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars.

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