Claire Coutinho said that climate policies have to ‘take people with you’.
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Claire Coutinho is only weeks into the job It comes amid reports, in both The Sun and the Mail on Sunday, that the Prime Minister is carrying out an “audit” of net zero policies ahead of the next general election.
Writing in The Sun, Claire Coutinho echoed much of the Prime Minister’s language as she attacked Labour and said that policies had to “take people with you”. “Put simply, we can’t do this alone, and hard-working families should not be forced to change their lives or have extra financial burdens put on them.
Tory success in the summer’s Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, won largely through a campaign against the expansion of the ultra low emission zone , has led to some MPs to call for Mr Sunak to water down or abandon net zero pledges.
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