Time to 'get real on net zero', Badenoch urges

KEMI Badenoch says she will ask shadow ministers to find "achievable solutions" to delivering cheap, clean energy.

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The Conservative Party leader said it was time to "get real" about the 2050 net zero target during a speech to launch the party's policy renewal process in London.

She said that net zero by 2050 cannot be achieved without "a significant drop in our living standards, or worse, by bankrupting us." However, naming an alternative date would be "repeating the same mistake" made in setting the current goal, she added.

"Why is it 2050 in the first place? No one knows," she said.