“Pragmatism, not ideology,” the prime minister emphasised as he announced a U-turn on the Conservative Party’s major green policies last September.
The plans, which focused on pushing back the 2030 deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and delaying the phasing out of gas boilers was, Rishi Sunak insisted, about doing the sensible thing. It was about not forcing hard-up households to shell out for new kit during a cost of living crisis. It was about “sensible green leadership”.
Green campaigners didn’t agree, of course. But neither did scientists. Nor the
