#net-zero-policy

#net-zero-policy

The Green party is offering simple solutions to complex problems and making undeliverable promises to voters ahead of the next election that could leave them disappointed, the prime minister's chief secretary has said. Darren Jones, one of Keir Starmer's most powerful ministers, said the resurgent Greens were a bit like the populist left version of the populist right of Reform UK, and that both were in danger of letting down voters.

He said: The business community want strong, stable policy signals, and flip-flopping is not good for investment. We see it right now in the US with a huge brain drain and capital drain, as whole sectors are being de-invested or even attacked. Consistency in the direction of UK policy over the last 20 years when successive Labour and Conservative governments vowed to press ahead with tackling the climate crisis, until Rishi Sunak's premiership had benefitted the economy, he said.