Badenoch may be a Thatcherite but her latest deal underlines her reputation as a hard-nosed pragmatist
The risk is that given the global race to attract clean tech jobs, the UK is only playing catch-up with a series of ad hoc, emergency moves without which our car industry would die.
Still, with the most avidly pro-Brexit Tory MPs appearing to also be the most “climate sceptic” Tory MPs, what worries some environmentalists is the sheer ignorance in Parliament about the basic facts of why investment in electric vehicles makes sense. John Redwood said that electric cars used a lot of CO2 in their production and if not driven much the benefits would be questionable. Yet electric vehicles typically produce 65 per cent less CO2 than petrol equivalent.
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