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'It is well-known that the Climate Change Act was voted through the UK parliament with near-unanimous cross-party support.'... 'Just five Conservatives voted against.'

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what-the-climate-change-act-does-and-does-not-mean-for-the-uk/

'Less widely appreciated is the fact that the Labour government only agreed to legislate in the face of huge public and political pressure, including from then-Conservative leader David Cameron.'

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Jon PENNYCOOK

@jonpsp@mstdn.social replied · 6 days ago

Jill Rutter, senior fellow at thinktank the Institute for Government (IfG): “One of the defining features of climate policy to date in the UK has been the political consensus that has underpinned it. That may have been because Margaret Thatcher was the first leading world politician to draw attention to climate change in 1989 [via a speech at the UN in New York].”

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Jon PENNYCOOK

@jonpsp@mstdn.social replied · 6 days ago

Jill Rutter: "David Cameron embraced the Friends of the Earth ‘Big Ask’ campaign as part of his moves to detoxify the Conservative party after its 2005 defeat. Theresa May then increased the target [in 2019] from 80% to net-zero as part of her legacy. It is that long Conservative inheritance on climate action that Badenoch is now rejecting.”

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what-the-climate-change-act-does-and-does-not-mean-for-the-uk/

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