Kemi Badenoch accused of breaking pledge to Tory MPs of net zero by 2050

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of breaking a promise made to Tory MPs during her leadership campaign after abandoning the party’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050. Speaking to the Observer, Chris Skidmore, who served as a government minister between 2016 and 2020, said that Badenoch had made clear to a group of Tory MPs and other Conservatives at a leadership hustings in 2022, when she was seeking their votes in the race to replace Boris Johnson, that she backed the policy. Skidmore said he recalled “how she told a Conservative Environment Network hustings of 60 MPs that I

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