Environmentalists have urged the major parties to keep their green pledges as the parties also faced warnings that the net-zero push may cost them elections.
It comes after London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) expansion was blamed for Labour’s loss in Thursday’s by-election in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.
Conservative MP and GB news broadcaster Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said the Tory victory showed that the electorates want the government to get rid of “unpopular, expensive green policies.”
Alok Sharma, the former president of the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, wrote on Twitter that it would be “self-defeating for any political party to seek to break the political consensus on this vital agenda.”…