Miliband to take on MPs who reject net zero aims

Ed Miliband is to explicitly call out politicians who reject net zero policies for betraying future generations, in an unprecedented update to parliament about the state of the climate crisis that he is calling "an exercise in radical truth-telling".

- Peter Walker

With Reform UK proposing to scrap all net zero measures, and even questioning the science behind climate change, and the Conservatives ditching environmental targets, Miliband hopes to regain the initiative with a stark warning to MPs. In what is planned to be an annual event, the energy security and net zero secretary will make a "state of the climate" address to the Commons setting out the findings of a new Met Office-led report that says the UK is already facing extreme weather and its effects.

"I feel a deep sense of responsibility to the British people to tell them the truth about what we know about the climate and nature crisis," Miliband said. "I want this to become an annual statement where it's an exercise in radical truth-telling about the state of the climate and nature.