Home secretary Suella Braverman has suggested some of the UK government’s net zero pledges are “arbitrary”, “punitive” and “totally unrealistic”, as Downing Street prepares to water down its green agenda.
Braverman told the BBC on Wednesday that ministers must not treat environmental goals as “straitjackets” or risk targets that “ruin people’s personal budgets” in light of cost of living pressures.
“We’re not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people,” Braverman said, insisting that moves to curb carbon emissions needed to be taken in a more “sustainable . . . mature . . . pragmatic way”.
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