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Rishi Sunak has said Margaret Thatcher would have backed his position on net zero after he delayed a number of key green policies.
The Prime Minister on Wednesday postponed a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035 while also announcing some households will be exempt from the forthcoming oil and gas boiler ban.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in the Thatcher Room of Downing Street, Mr Sunak was asked how his changes could be squared with the Iron Lady’s warnings in 1989 about the “insidious danger of climate change”.
“The first thing to say is we’re absolutely not slowing down efforts to combat climate change,” replied. “I’m very proud of our country’s leadership. We’ve decarbonised faster than any other economy in the G7, not a fact you hear that often. I think those targets are right because I do passionately want to make sure we get to net zero, that’s the right thing to do.