Labour must be as “hard” on climate change as on the economy | Andrew Marr | New Statesman

The next British government needs to treat climate change with the same “cold hard realism” as we do the economy.

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Despite being the first country to commit net zero targets into law, the British government’s own climate change commission says that the UK will soon be in “a position where we can no longer say to other countries, stop using fossil fuels, stop going into oil, stop going into gas” because we are doing “so little” ourselves.

With record-high temperatures, right-wing “anti-scientific” lobbying, and delayed transitions to green energy, Andrew Marr calls on the next government to apply the same “cold, hard realism” we assume on the economy to climate change in order for the UK to maintain its world-leading status.

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Andrew Marr is Political Editor for the New Statesman, and is one of the UK's most senior political journalists. He spent over 20 years at the BBC where he was Political Editor and hosted the wildly successful Andrew Marr show. He is now based in Westminster where he brings his deep experience of political reporting to his analysis of the most important events in UK politics. He also hosts Tonight with Andrew Marr on LBC Radio.

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