Kemi Badenochhas faced a wave of criticism fromToryelite figures promising to abolish a significant environmental regulation if she comes to power.
On the night before her inaugural party conference as leader, she encountered disapproval from her former leader, Baroness May, and two ex-Conservative ministers regarding her plan to prioritize affordable energy over environmental goals.
Mrs. Badenoch had maintained that she was not challengingclimate change, but is of the opinion that the targets and regulations imposed byLabourThe UK's Climate Change Act 2008 is causing electricity costs to rise and harming industrial sectors.
The legislation established legally enforceable limits on the overall quantity of greenhouse gases that the UK is permitted to release.
However, former premier Lady May, in an unusual critique of the leader, stated: 'I am deeply disappointed by this regressive move that overturns 17 years of agreement between our major political parties and the scientific community.'
She claimed that Britain has 'taken the lead' in addressing climate change, pointing to her own laws setting the goal of achieving Net Zero by 2050, as well as the 2008 law introduced by Ed Miliband, which Mrs Badenoch now aims to discard.
Retracting now would be a disastrous error, as the science stays unchanged while that agreement is being examined.
The negative impacts are clear. It is our responsibility to our children and grandchildren to safeguard the Earth for their future, which involves providing businesses with the confidence they need to develop solutions for the serious challenges we encounter.
Her previous chief of staff at Downing Street, Lord Barwell, stated: 'This is a mix of poor policy and poor politics.'
Those voters who do not back Net Zero will end up supporting Farage.
There is no future for the Conservative Party if it continues to act as a mere imitation of Reform – it will lose moderate voters without regaining support from Reform's base and will keep losing ground in the polls.
Lord Deben, former environment minister under Margaret Thatcher, stated the former prime minister would have been 'shocked'.
He said to The Times, "She did not back industries that were not going to be the future. Instead, she shifted her support towards emerging sectors."
Lord Sharma, a member of the Cabinet during Lady May's and Boris Johnson's administrations who oversaw the Glasgow COP summit in 2021, stated: 'Due to the firm and ongoing dedication of the previous Conservative government towards environmental initiatives and achieving Net Zero, the UK drew in several tens of billions of pounds in private sector funding and related employment opportunities... The route to a thriving, stable, and viable future for the Conservative Party is by continuing to build upon our successes, rather than discarding them.'
However, Mrs Badenoch stated that the true mistake would be keeping the Act in place. 'The disastrous error is halting oil and gas drilling in the North Sea while still importing oil and gas from the North Sea from Norway,' she further mentioned.
A major error is losing the chemical industry, manufacturing sector, and ceramics. We are moving away from industrialization. This must come to an end.
We are depleting our nation's resources, yet we are not achieving progress in enhancing our environment.
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